The revised Constitution of 1806 was approved at Grand-Goâve on 2 June 1816. Article 1 stated that slavery could not exist in the Republic and was forever abolished. The constitutional guarantee made the revolutionary break with slaveholding law a continuing principle of the state. It coexisted, however, with labor policies that later restricted rural workers’ mobility and bargaining power.
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What did Article 1 of Haiti’s 1816 Constitution state?
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The revised constitution reaffirmed that slavery could not exist in the Republic.