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. Initially regarded as governor-general
Portrait by Louis Rigaud, 1878
A posthumous depiction of Dessalines in The Oath of the Ancestors (1822)
Dessalines' coronation
Dessalines holding a white woman's head
1804 Haitian massacre
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The 1804 Haiti massacre was a genocide carried out by Afro-Haitian soldiers, mostly former slaves, under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines against much of the remaining European population in Haiti,
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
…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…
"Burning of the Plaine du Cap – Massacre of whites by the blacks." On August 22, 1791, slaves destroyed plantations in Le Cap, and killed all the French population in the region.
Woman killed and mutilated in the massacre with her child perishing from starvation