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17
Febrüari
1807

The 1807 Constitution formalizes Haiti’s political division

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📅 17 Febrüari 1807 📍 Haiti

After the conflict following Dessalines’s assassination, Henri Christophe’s northern State of Haiti adopted a constitution on 17 February 1807, while Alexandre Pétion’s southern and western Republic organized its own government. The division reflected competing political projects and the unresolved tensions of post-revolutionary state-building, not a return to French rule. Both governments claimed to defend the independence won through revolution, while governing distinct territories and institutions.

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Henri Christophe

Alexandre Pétion

Haitian generals and legislators

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

State of Haiti

Republic of Haiti