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
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
Now Henry’s inability to attend the Dessalines memorial, even with the full backing of the National Police, has many wondering about his hold on power.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2021
Large numbers of them deserted General Dessalines in San Domingo, and fled to the mountains, frightened at the daring of the French.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
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