Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 1804 Haiti massacre, also referred to as the Haitian genocide, [1] [2] [3] was carried out by Afro-Haitian soldiers, mostly former slaves, under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines against much of the remaining European population in Haiti, which mainly included French people.
On 1 January 1804, Dessalines, the new leader under the dictatorial 1801 constitution, declared Haiti a state in the name of the Haitian people. Dessalines' secretary Boisrond-Tonnerre stated, "For our declaration of independence, we should have the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull for an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet ...
They are the prized bounty of Haiti’s hard-fought struggle for freedom, ... On Jan. 1, 1804, Dessalines declared the birth of a new nation, Haiti, the world’s first free Black republic. To ...
With this declaration, Haiti became the first independent Black nation in the Western Hemisphere. [12] [13] Jean-Jacques Dessalines became the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution. He was Governor-General of Haiti from January 1st, 1804, to September 2nd, 1804, and Emperor of Haiti from September 2nd, 1804, to October ...
Category: 1804 in the Caribbean. 4 languages. ... 1804 in Haiti (1 C, 4 P) Haitian Revolution (2 C, 30 P) P. 1804 in Puerto Rico (1 C) S. 1804 in the Spanish West ...
Haiti is not a territory of the United States; it is an independent nation, gaining freedom from France in 1804, at the end of the Haitian Revolution. Though, it was nearly 60 years before the ...
An etching of the coronation of Dessalines as Emperor of Haiti Dessalines holding a mutilated French woman's head. On 1 January 1804, from the city of Gonaïves, Dessalines officially declared the former colony's independence and renamed it "Ayiti" after the indigenous Taíno name. He had served as Governor-General of Saint-Domingue since 30 ...
Christophe consolidated power in Cap-Haitien, in the north, and established the State of Haiti before declaring himself president-for-life in 1807. In the south, the Senate elected Pétion as President of the first Republic of Haiti. The two Haitis entered a stalemate between the State of Haiti in the north and the Republic of Haiti in the south.