HIST1011 Chapter : Thien Dam history activity 6 dubois 12-7-12.docx

• School: Boston College
• Department: History
• Course: HIST1011
• Professor: Owen Stanwood

Document Summary

I was not able to come to prof. dubois"s lecture so i had to listen to it through taping. In my listen, what i got from professor dubois"s lecture is that the haiti"s legal system was essentially shaped by slaves. He spends quite some time talking about the types of people and diversity of the population. At the time, haiti was basically founded by ex-slaves, people who were once slaves but then fled or gained freedom. 90% of the population of haiti during the revolution was enslaved. This combination of african born and slaves from haiti to slaves from other nations brought about a diverse group of people who had they own set of beliefs, way of thinking and ethnics. Although they were culturally different from each other, dubois also spends some time talking about their urge to take part in the law of.