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Haiti’s Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Assassinated 215 years before Jovenel Moïse - The Washington Post
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.
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Did You Know About The Haitian Revolutionary Who Changed The Course Of The World When He Ended Slavery And Declared Haitian Independence? - Essence | Essence
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!” ...
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Meet Haiti’s founding father, whose black revolution was too radical for Thomas Jefferson - The Conversation
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 ...
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Columbus haters rename street for murderous Haitian emperor
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 ...
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Haiti's bitter history of hope - Los Angeles Times
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 ...
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From rebellious beginnings, Haiti has been beset by violence - Miami Herald
Post-independence, the country’s first leader, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, declared himself emperor for life. Like four subsequent leaders, he was assassinated.