Answer:
From 1791 through 1804, enslaved people and their allies in Saint-Domingue fought a protracted revolution to win their independence from France. This was not the first episode of rebellion or fear of rebellion, as the case of François Makandal shows, but it was the most successful. After a ceremony at Bois Caïman, the rebellion began in August 1791. Within a few weeks the insurrection grew to include more than one hundred thousand participants who destroyed hundreds of plantations. In 1792, the French Assembly sent troops to put down the rebellion.