File:1818 Haitian Republican Constitution.pdf
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English: Documents Joseph Balthazar Inginac gave to James Tredwell. The documents are chiefly English translations of the correspondence exchanged between Président Pétion and the French commissioners, Vicomte de Fontanges and M. Esmangart, Oct. 2-Nov. 10, 1816 |
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| Source | http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/425996009?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhdl.loc.gov%2Floc.law%2Flaw0001.201076373969.2%26checksum%3Df2c20a901c2b31523fc58c3476876c3f&title=&linktype=digitalObject&detail= |
| Author | James Tredwell |
From 1660 to 1804, Haiti, then known as Saint Domingue, was a French colony located on the island of Hispaniola where African slaves were used to work on the plantations that produced tobacco, indigo, cotton, and cacao. Inspired by the French Revolution, Toussaint Loverture, a freed slave, led an insurrection in 1791 that put an end to slavery in Saint Domingue. In order to maintain French control, in 1801 Napoleon Bonaparte sent an invasion force, but all attempts failed. On January 1, 1804, Jean Jacques Dessalines, leader of the rebels, declared independence from France. In 1806, after the assassination of Dessalines, the country was divided in two: a kingdom in the north led by Henri Christophe and a republic in the south ruled by Alexandre Pétion. In 1821, Jean Pierre Boyer reunified Haiti and in 1825, negotiated an agreement with France which stipulated that France would recognize Haiti as an independent nation in return for 150 million francs (later reduced to 90 million francs). A revolt led by Charles Rivière-Hérard overthrew Boyer in 1843 and a long period political and economic instability ensued that ended with the occupation of Haiti by the United States in 1915.
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