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On 1 January 1804, Dessalines, the new leader under the dictatorial 1801 constitution, declared Haiti a state in the name of the Haitian people. Dessalines' secretary Boisrond-Tonnerre stated, "For our declaration of independence, we should have the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull for an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet ...
On 1 January 1804, from the city of Gonaïves, Dessalines officially declared the former colony's independence, renaming it "Haiti" after the indigenous Arawak name. Although he lasted from 1804 to 1806, several changes began taking place in Haiti.
The Haitian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on January 1st, 1804, in the port city of Gonaïves by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, marking the end of the 13-year-long Haitian Revolution. With this declaration, Haiti became the first independent Black nation in the Western Hemisphere.
By November 1803, the Bossales and Creoles rose up and defeated the French together, and their Creole emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared Haitian independence on Jan. 1, 1804.
Independence Day in Haiti is celebrated annually as a public holiday on every 1st of January [1] along with New Years Day, commemorating the nation's liberation from the French Empire. [1] [2] It also marks the birth of the world's first independent black republic, one achieved through an unprecedented successful slave revolt with the Haitian ...
They are the prized bounty of Haiti’s hard-fought struggle for freedom, ... On Jan. 1, 1804, Dessalines declared the birth of a new nation, Haiti, the world’s first free Black republic. To ...
Dessalines' army arrives in Cap-Français; Christophe and Clerveaux issue a preliminary declaration of independence 4 December: French forces surrender Môle Saint-Nicolas to Dessalines' army, officially ending French presence on the island 1804: 1 January: Dessalines, in Gonaïves, declares Haiti an independent nation and becomes Governor ...
On 1 January 1804 Dessalines then declared independence, [39] reclaiming the indigenous Taíno name of Haiti ("Land of Mountains") for the new sovereign state. Most of the remaining French colonists fled ahead of the defeated French army, many migrating to Louisiana or Cuba .