Abolition of slavery

In the Haitian Revolution the slaves made up the vast majority of its population. Even though they made up the vast population, the white people did not want equal treatment for all the people regardless of race. As Haiti became independent, and break from Europe. After that they declared all citizens legally equal regardless of race, color, or class. I think this was something really good for the slaves working because that meant they where going to become free, and where going to have rights. Slavery was legal for a long time, but by the time that many countries where becoming independent they began to ban slavery. Many began to have petitions to parliament, lawsuits, boycotts of slave - produced sugar. Following the independence of most Latin American countries abolished slavery by the 1850s.