{"id":24251,"date":"2019-02-14T08:32:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T07:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24251"},"modified":"2019-02-14T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T07:32:04","slug":"how-a-slave-revolt-in-haiti-doubled-the-size-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24251","title":{"rendered":"How a slave revolt in Haiti doubled the size of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to love <em>&#8220;The West Wing&#8221;<\/em> not just for its entertainment value but because I learned things. To some extent, the same is true with the current political series <em>&#8220;Madam Secretary&#8221;<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was thanks to a episode recently screened in the UK (we are behind the US) that I learned how the United States was doubled in size thanks to the Louisiana Purchase which in turn was prompted by a slave rebellion in Haiti. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the explanation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/louisiana-purchase-price-french-colonial-slave-rebellion\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to love &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; not just for its entertainment value but because I learned things. To some extent, the same is true with the current political series &#8220;Madam Secretary&#8221;. It was thanks to a episode recently screened in the UK (we are behind the US) that I learned how the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24252,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24251\/revisions\/24252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}