LOUISIANA PURCHASE
The Haitian Revolution also changed the course of American history.

How?

By the spring of 1803, French victory in Saint-Domingue was looking less likely. Napoleon needed money to fund his war against Britain. So the historic deal was struck. The United States would never look the same, in no small part due to the Haitian Revolution.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
During the American Revolution, some of the black volunteers were members of Saint-Domingue’s freedmen, called the Chasseurs-Volontaires.

The Siege of Savannah began on September 16, 1779. The unit was comprised of more than 500 freedmen from Saint-Domingue. The siege was abandoned a month later. American and French forces withdrew. The British held Savannah.

Savannah’s monument commemorates the contribution of Haitians in the fight for an independent America.

CHICAGO’S FOUNDER
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was born in Saint-Marc in present-day northern Haiti.

He moved to what is now Chicago, and by 1790, Du Sable's establishment at the mouth of the Chicago River, just east of the present Michigan Avenue Bridge, had become an important link in the region's fur and grain trade. A statue at the site now commemorates his title as the Founder of Chicago.