Haiti

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Haiti
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History

• Tainos
• Hispaniola
• Saint Domingue
• François Mackandal
• Maroons

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Toussaint Louverture

• French Revolution
• Boukman
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• General Leclerc

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines

• Emperor Jacques I
• Haiti

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Proclamation of Independence of the Republic of
Haiti
January 1, 1804

• We must take away from this inhumane government,
  which held for so long our spirits in the most
  humiliating torpor, all hope to resubjugate us.
  We must at last live independent or die.

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Post-revolution

• Alexandre Pétion
• Henri Christophe
• Jean-Pierre Boyer
• François Duvalier (Papa Doc)
• Tonton Macoutes
• Jean Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc)
• Jean Bertrand Aristide