> 'Most successful' here meaning it ended in ethnic cleansing, frequent atrocity ( True It's worth pointing out that apart from 'minor issues' such as genocid

> 'Most successful' here meaning it ended in ethnic cleansing, frequent atrocity ( True It's worth pointing out that apart from 'minor issues' such as genociding whites and mixed-race Haitians [2], after the slave rebellion, the former blacks slaves pretty swiftly reinstituted slavery [1]! Dessalines adopted the economic organisation of serfdom. He proclaimed that every citizen would belong to one of two categories, laborer or soldier. Furthermore, he proclaimed the mastery of the state over the individual and consequently ordered that all laborers would be bound to a plantation. To avoid the appearance of slavery, however, Dessalines abolished the ultimate symbol of slavery, the whip. Likewise, the working day was shortened by a third. Dessalines' chief motivator nonetheless was production and to this aim he granted much freedom to the plantations' overseers. Barred from using the whip, many instead turned to lianes, which were thick vines abundant throughout the island, to 'persuade' the 'laborers' to keep working. Dessalines effectively sent the Haitian people back into slavery. The new ruling class turned out to be the "Affranchi" [1, 3] typically french educated mixed-race Haitians. The Haitian slave rebellion teaches us a large number of lessons about humanity, most not very palatable. It's really interesting to note that (as far as I'm aware) no slave rebellion in history did actually seek to abolish slavery. The slaves wanted only to flip who's a slave and how's a slave holder. I conjecture that the real reason for slavery as a mode of labour organisation becoming obsolete is technical progress: slavery became less efficient than industrialised capitalism. Haiti has been a basket-case ever since. Compare with countries like South-Korea, West Germany, Mainland China and many others which rose from utter basket cases to prosperity in a decade. [1] Wikipedia, Haitian Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution [2] Wikipedia, 1804 Haiti massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre [3] Wikipedia, Affranchi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affranchi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affranchi