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It was the only successful slave insurrection in history. It grasped the full meaning of French revolutionary ideas and used them to create the world's first black republic. It elevated a former slave, Toussaint Louverture, to such fame that admirers ranked him on par with George Washington. It was the Haitian Revolution, a movement of admirable aspirations and appalling destruction. This film explores this history through music, voodoo ritual, powerful recreations, writers and historians.

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