Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines was the first Haitian Emperor, leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution.
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A posthumous depiction of Dessalines in The Oath of the Ancestors (1822)
An etching of the coronation of Dessalines as Emperor of Haiti
Dessalines holding a mutilated French woman's head
Dessalines depicted on a 1916 Banque Nationale de la République 1 gourde note (1916)
A depiction of Dessalines’s corpse after he was killedIn their orbit 2
Politicians born in the 1750s 6
About this person
Jean-Jacques Dessalines was the first Haitian Emperor, leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution. Initially regarded as governor-general, Dessalines was later named Emperor of Haiti as Jacques I (1804-1806) by generals of the Haitian Revolutionary army and ruled in that capacity until being assassinated in 1806. He spearheaded the resistance against French rule of Saint-Domingue, and eventually became the architect of the 1804 massacre of the remaining White French residents of newly independent Haiti. Alongside Toussaint Louverture, he has been referred to as one of the fathers of the nation of Haiti. Under the rule of Dessalines, Haiti became the first country in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery.
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