EVENT INFORMATION

1
Januari
1804

Haiti declares independence and secures the abolition of slavery

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📅 1 Januari 1804 📍 Haïti

Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed independence at Gonaïves and named the country Haiti, drawing on the Indigenous name Ayiti. The declaration explicitly rejected the prospect of re-enslavement and ended French colonial rule. Haiti became an independent state founded through the victory of enslaved and formerly enslaved people over slavery and empire.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Louis Boisrond-Tonnerre

Haitian revolutionary soldiers

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Haitian Army

independent Haitian state