Ch. 17 Pg. 507-524

In this reading what really surprised me was to find out that Haiti was one of the first American countries to come about.  I never really stopped and asked myself about which countries were some of the first to gain independence but I don’t think that I would have guessed Haiti to be one.  I think what assists me in thinking that is that Haiti was so engulfed in slavery and oppressed that I wouldn’t have guessed they were one of the first to gain independence from France.