Category: Atlantic Revolutions

• The Illuminati-Haitian Connection

  This theory holds that the Haitian Revolution was not primarily the result of slavery, colonial violence, and the Age of Revolution, but a covert extension of the same secret-society forces that counterrevolutionaries claimed had engineered the French Revolution. In its strongest form, the theory says French Illuminati, Jacobin networks, or Masonic radicals deliberately fomented revolt in Saint-Domingue in order to destroy plantation wealth, collapse the colonial order, and spread revolutionary chaos across the Atlantic world. The documented record clearly shows that anti-Illuminati explanations of the French Revolution became widespread after the 1790s and that the Haitian Revolution destroyed one of the richest slave colonies in the world. What remains unproven is the claim of an operational Illuminati hand behind the Haitian uprising itself.