How Serving Chicken Helped Spark the Haitian Revolution
18th Century

How Serving Chicken Helped Spark the Haitian Revolution

A cook decided the beef looked spoiled and served chicken instead, and that swap at a Saint-Domingue dinner party helped trigger the revolution that would terrify every slaveholding nation on earth.

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18th CenturyCaribbeanHaitian RevolutionSlaveryVodouNapoleon BonaparteSaint DomingueColonial RebellionsThomas JeffersonLouisiana PurchaseBoukmanFrench Colonial Empire

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