Haitian Revolution Memorial Analysis

My memorial for the Haitian Revolution would be located in a populated area where it is easily accessible to everyone in Haiti. The location is crucial for the importance for this memorial to flourish. By it being displayed to a diverse amount of people many will be exposed to the interpretation as well as the cause and effect of the Haitian Revolution. The main audience would be people from Haiti who can have a higher appreciation and understanding for their history, to connect with and value. Furthermore, this memorial targets everyone because this piece of history, whether or not affects you directly should be noticed and taken into account for. This was the first successful slave revolt and led to the independence of Haiti today. Experiencing
This violence being expressed by both sides, blacks and whites, reflects how the revolution was a product of an anti-European movement. For years blacks were oppressed by white masters discriminating them because of their color, “from their masters, they had known rape, torture, degradation, and, at the slightest provocation, death” (The San Domingo Masses Begin). They had only ever experienced cruelty and hatred and as an equal reaction wanted to inflict this onto their oppressors. The whites were overly aggressive and belittled blacks even though their religion. Voodoo, both a sacred dance and a religion, was forbidden in the French colonies of Haiti. Voodoo prevailed despite the whites efforts, nurtured in secret by the colony’s first slaves. During the Haitian revolution Voodoo played a huge role for slaves, it was a psychological liberation in that it enabled them to express and reaffirm that self-existence they objectively recognized through their own labor. As well as being able to break away psychologically from their reality, giving them human dignity and enabling them to survive. During the revolution Voodoo brought together disparate forces uniting various rebel factions to fight side by side. During these secretive ceremonies slaves discussed their lives and over time began to discover the mistreatment and hatred they had towards whites. This led them to believe that “their god who is good to us orders us to revenge our wrongs” (The San Domingo Masses Begin) directly aiding the blacks through religion to fight against their oppressors and fight for fair treatment. The mindset of the Haitian revolution came from experience, revenge and religion. All these factors pointed to an anti-European movement. The constant discrimination of blacks caused a hatred to burn in their hearts and need to demolish whites/inflict pain on the people who caused them theirs. Once the Haitian revolution was put