"The Maroon Rebellion" - Assassin's Creed: Real History

In this fifteenth episode of “Assassin’s Creed: Real History” we review the years of struggles faced by escaped slaves in Saint-Domingue, which served as the backdrop for Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry. If you have any topic requests for a future video, in which you would like me to research the real history and compare it to the game’s representation, please leave me a comment! Assassin's Creed Real History Playlist:    • Assassin's Creed: Real History [Updated]   English subtitles are available for this video. Topic Choice Continuing my sub-series in which I discuss the time periods of the franchise, this video provides an introduction to the Maroons as a people, a review of how their decades of struggle were depicted in Freedom Cry, and finally a brief summary of how this culminated in the eventual Haitian Revolution. Disclaimer I am an amateur historian. History is not my official field of study, but rather a passion. This series acts as my hobby and as a way to share with you the real history behind characters, groups, events and locations that are depicted in the Assassin’s Creed video game series. Although I work hard to be as detail-oriented as possible, I am clearly not without fault and therefore welcome you to let me know whether you feel I have missed anything important or have misrepresented something in my video. References Dallas, R. C. (1803). The history of the Maroons: from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone. London: Longman. Diouf, S. (2014). Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons. New York: NYU Press. Dubois, L. (2004). Avengers of the New World: the story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Ferreiro, L. D. (2011). Measure of the Earth: the enlightenment expedition that reshaped our world. New York: Basic Books. Fick, C. E. (1990). The making of Haiti: the Saint Domingue revolution from below. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Fouchard, J. (1981). The Haitian Maroons: liberty or death. New York, NY: E.W. Blyden Press. Geggus, D. P. (1983). Slave resistance studies and the Saint Domingue slave revolt: some preliminary considerations. Miami, FL: Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University. Price, R. (1973). Maroon societies: rebel slave communities in the Americas. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press. Thompson, A. O. (2006). Flight to freedom: African runaways and maroons in the Americas. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press. Combat et prise de la Crête-à-Pierrot (1839) by: Auguste Raffet Incendie de la Plaine du Cap. - Massacre des Blancs par les Noirs. (1833) by: Martinet & Masson Jean Jacques Dessalines, president and then emperor of Haiti (1800s) by: Louis Rigaud Le Général Toussaint Louverture (1800s) by: Unknown Artist Representation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) by: Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier Spanish Map of Hispaniola (1723) by: Nicolas de Fer http://library.brown.edu/haitihistory... http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/... http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/h... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroon_...) http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/... Credits Commentary/Editing (Robius):    / onlineknights   Intro Music (Akmigone):    / akmigone