Dessalines
Americannoun
noun
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After Dessalines declared Haiti’s sovereign independence on January 1, 1804, White plantation owners either fled or were killed, and lands were redistributed among Haiti’s former enslaved and free Black people.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
During Monday’s protest, demonstrators hailed Dessalines, the leader of the anti-slavery revolution who was assassinated in 1806, as they rejected the potential deployment of foreign troops.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
Despite different backgrounds, their connections with revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines brought them together to play crucial parts in Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2022
It was just one of 30 forts ordered up by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s first ruler, in preparation for what he called “an eventual offensive return of the French.”
From New York Times ● May 20, 2022
On January 1, 1804, Haiti, as it was better known, proclaimed its independence with General Dessalines as ruler.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various
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