>>213752881>In May 1802, Napoleon dispatched the 3rd Polish Half-Brigade of around 5,200 men to join French forces in Saint-Domingue>Surviving Polish soldiers admired their opponents, and some 500 or so of them would eventually turn on the French army and joined the rebels.>The Poles would find kinship with the Haitians and many would come to believe that the former slaves were fighting for the same ideals of freedom and independence to which they, the Poles, aspired.>>213752937the opposite, only polish men settle there.
>>213753122you laugh, but when haitians killed all the french in the island they spared the poles
>After Haiti gained its independence, Dessalines recognized the Poles and spared them when he ordered the massacre of most French whites and many free blacks (mulattos) on the island. He granted the Poles classification as Noir (black), who constituted the new ruling class, and in the constitution granted them full Haitian citizenship.>>213752845 (OP)kino, thank you OP, finally learned something here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Haitians