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Which communities of self-liberated Africans helped launch the Haitian Revolution?

Correct answer The Maroons

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Maroon communities were formed by Africans who escaped slavery and their descendants. In the French colony of Saint-Domingue, Maroons resisted colonial rule and helped launch the Haitian Revolution, which led to Haiti’s independence in 1804. They were not an Indigenous people: their history is rooted chiefly in the African diaspora and resistance to enslavement.

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