New USA was the world's first individual rights defense, written constitution, and checks and balances republic. French Revolution of 1789 was revolutionary. Consumed by complete economic devastation, authoritarian social hierarchy, and widespread disillusionment with the absolutism of monarch kings, it set the stage for the overthrow of KingLouis XVI and the installation of revolutionary governments that implemented revolutionary reforms like the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen—a constitutional bill of universal rights to freedom, property, and equality before the law. In spite of its eventual degeneration into anarchic bloodshed and Bonapartist despotism, the revolution provided a good example of political and popular revolution. No more long-lasting in its effects was the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), which had started as a slave uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Ever more under the sway of Revolutionary French ideology and by individuals such as Toussaint Louverture, the slaves expelled their colonial overlords and established the world's first state to be independent of slavery. Not only had the revolution terminated colonialism and the transatlantic slave regime, it had pushed the world at large to confront the contradiction between Enlightenment principle and racial domination as everyday reality. Together, all the revolutions gave birth to a new European and Latin American political phenomenon, overthrew dictators and monarchs, and influenced intellectual and institutional pillars of the modern democracy, human rights, and freedom and equality movement across the globe.