The 1805 constitution stated that slavery was forever abolished. It entrenched the victory of the revolution in the new state’s founding law. Emancipation did not mean full control over work: the postwar government maintained plantation production under strict labor rules, a tension that should be distinguished from legal chattel slavery.
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What did the Haitian Constitution of 1805 declare?
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The constitution entrenched abolition, although strict labor discipline continued.
Haiti’s 1805 constitution abolished slavery forever, while strict labor rules still constrained workers.
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Legal abolition and freedom from labor coercion were not the same thing.