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Two centuries before Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated, Jean-Jacques Dessalines was slain by political rivals after helping to lead an anti-slavery revolution.
Dessalines successfully unified the Black population to create the armée indigène or indigenous army, who changed their motto from “Liberty or Death!” to “Independence or Death!” ...
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s founding father. Book of Paintings, by Renée Stout, CC BY-NC-ND. Just after declaring independence, in early 1804, Dessalines discovered that local French ...
In 2018 City Council voted to name a street in Brooklyn after former Haitian emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Gregory P. Mango. Williams branded him “the biggest genocidal murderer the globe has ...
ON JAN. 1, 1804, the victorious Gen. Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti’s independence. As he did so, he called upon his countrymen to avenge their slaughtered dead by destroying the ...
Post-independence, the country’s first leader, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, declared himself emperor for life. Like four subsequent leaders, he was assassinated.