“I didn’t want anybody to be colonists or slave owners and actively fight against abolition.” Damon Stone “The meaning of the Haitian Revolution is people fighting for a better way of life, sometimes disagreeing, but in the end succeeding at being the first country in the Western Hemisphere to leave slavery behind,” Stone tells Inverse.īut whether Liberation-Haiti is the start of a gaming revolution or itself a footnote in tabletop history depends on whether Stone can convince players and game-makers to play it at all. It also doesn’t hurt that the story of Haiti translates perfectly to the world of battle strategy games. Stone isn’t the first person to challenge the built-in politics of most board games, but with years of experience and an industry award, he might just succeed. “I didn’t want anybody to have to play any aspect of the French.” His goal? Translate Dessalines’s incredible victory over the French into Liberation-Haiti, the anti-colonialist answer to dominant board games like Risk and Settlers of Catan. Some 200 years later, game creator Damon Stone is facing an almost equally formidable challenge.
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Outmaneouvering the great general, Dessalines forced Napoleon’s army out of the French colony of Saint-Domingue and established himself as the de facto ruler of a new, free state of Haiti.
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In 1803, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a Black man from the Caribbean who was born into slavery, defeated one of the most powerful world leaders ever known: Napoleon Bonaparte.