TRIGGERING EVENT:
The upper, and middle classes were in disagreement with each other. So the black slaves rebelled against their owners taking advantage of the situation. They started killing white people and killed there plantations. Boukman and Vodou led over one hundred thousand slaves against the outnumbered French. Boukman knew that he and the slaves could outnumber the French, and it was just a matter of time till the slaves revolted.