Chapter 17 Atlantic Revolutions and Their Echoes (pg. 507-524)

The Haitian Revolution was a period of conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian republic.The revolution was one of the two successful attempts, along with the American Revolution, to achieve permanent independence from a European colonial power for an American state before the 19th century. Furthermore, it is generally considered the most successful slave rebellion ever to have occurred in the Americas and as a defining moment in the history of Africans in the New World.
The Spanish–American Revolution was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence. Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans; there had been war scares before. 

Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery. In western Europe and the Americas abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and set slaves free. The Dominican priest who was shocked at the treatment of natives in the New World, Spain enacted the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in 1542, but was forced to weaken these laws by 1545.