A constitutional act transformed Christophe’s northern state into the Kingdom of Haiti. He was crowned Henry I on 2 June. Christophe’s government built schools, fortifications, and state institutions, while imposing demanding labor obligations and autocratic rule. The kingdom’s achievements and coercions must be read together: it sought to defend a vulnerable Black state against renewed foreign domination while compelling many rural people to sustain its military and economic projects.
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