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The declaration marked Haiti becoming the first independent nation of Latin America and only the second in the Americas after the United States. [1] Notably, the Haitian declaration of independence signalled the culmination of the only successful slave revolution in history. [2] Only two copies of the original printed version exist.
The Haitian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on January 1st, 1804, in the port city of Gonaïves by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, marking the end of the 13-year-long Haitian Revolution. With this declaration, Haiti became the first independent Black nation in the Western Hemisphere. [12] [13] Jean-Jacques Dessalines became the first ruler ...
[4] [5] The Haitian Revolution defeated the French army in November 1803 and the Haitian Declaration of Independence happened on 1 January 1804. [6] From February 1804 [ 7 ] until 22 April 1804, between 3,000 and 7,000 people were killed.
The Haitian Declaration of Independence, a key document in the history of Haiti, was given along with an Independence Day speech by Jean-Jacques Dessalines. The document was not written by Dessalines himself though, instead relying on his secretary, Louis Boisrond-Tonnerre , to transcribe his spoken words due to his inability to speak or write ...
Polish soldiers participated in the Haitian revolution of 1804, contributing to the establishment of the world's first free black republic and the first independent Caribbean state. [ 106 ] Haiti's first head of state Jean-Jacques Dessalines called Polish people "the White Negroes of Europe" , which was then regarded a great honor, as it meant ...
On Jan. 1, 1804, Dessalines declared the birth of a new nation, Haiti, the world’s first free Black republic. To defend that freedom, Henri Christophe, a general in the war, took over after ...
Between February and April 1804, Dessalines ordered a massacre of the remaining colonists in Haiti, an event that came to be called the 1804 Haiti massacre. [5] In the Haitian Constitution of 1805, Dessalines declared Haiti to be an all-black nation and forbade white colonists from owning property or land there. [8]
Boisrond-Tonnerre was educated in Paris until 1798 when he returned to Haiti (Daut 56). He is the author of the 1804 Haitian Declaration of Independence, which formally declared Haiti's independence from the colonial rule of France. He is also known for his work chronicling the Haitian Revolution, Mémoires pour Servir à l'Histoire d'Haïti.