#  Hutchins Center: Philippe Girard: Nathan I. Huggins Lectures (3 of 3)  

 



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 **October 29, 2015** 

 04:00PM - 04:00PM EDT 

 



 

**Philippe Girard**, Professor of History and Department Head, McNeese State University

October 29th: **Isaac Sasportas**

****Lecture 3:**** Isaac Sasportas was a Haitian-born Sephardic Jew. Inspired by the French Revolution¹s embrace of religious and racial equality, he conceived an elaborate plan in 1799 to export the Haitian Revolution to nearby Jamaica and to free Britain¹s slaves‹the closest that the New World ever got to a second Haiti. His ultimate failure reveals why the Haitian Revolution remained a one-off event.

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