Revolutionary leaders proclaimed Dessalines emperor in September 1804, consolidating authority in the new state. His coronation took place on 8 October. The empire asserted Haiti’s sovereignty in a world of hostile slaveholding powers, while concentrating political power in one ruler. The title and court drew on Atlantic political forms even as the revolution rejected the racial and colonial hierarchy that had supported European empires.
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