A statue of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Although there have been biographies of Dessalines in ...
On this date we remember Haiti’s founder General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who was killed after becoming the first world leader in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery. PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – ...
LAURENT DUBOIS is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University and the author of, among other books, "Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution." ON JAN. 1, 1804 ...
October, Haiti celebrates Dessalines Day, commemorating the assassination in 1806 of the country’s first head of state ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Julia Gaffield, William & Mary (THE CONVERSATION) Every Oct. 17, Haiti celebrates ...
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