The Haitian Revolution and Nat Turner’s Revolt considerably changed America. It would be nice to believe their effect wasn’t lasting and had been relegated to history, but the fears created in the early 1800s still exist today. The same motivations and fears are behind the laws that prohibit gatherings of protesters and “anti-riot” legislation. It’s why voter suppression never disappeared, and every Black organization, ranging from the NAACP to the Black Panther Party, needed to be infiltrated and suppressed. It’s why Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and others were assassinated.