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Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Reassessing the Haitian revolutionary leader’s legacy

  • Written by Julia Gaffield, Associate Professor of History, William & Mary
Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Reassessing the Haitian revolutionary leader’s legacyA statue of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Every Oct. 17, Haiti celebrates Dessalines Day, commemorating the assassination in 1806 of the country’s first head of state postindependence, Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

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