Causes-→American and French Revolution
→ 1791-1804 Enlightenment ideas
→gens de coulers (Mulattos) lower in social status than the whites
→Status of slaves in St. Domingue (French Colony)
Effect→1804 Haiti declares independence
→debt burden
→continues cash crop economy
→Pariah-outcast among nations
→New constitution-equality for all regardless of race
→government an economy dominated by small, elite group