JEAN-JACQUES DESSALINES
FIRST PRESIDENT OF HAITI
EMPEROR JACQUES I

January 1, 1804 -- Oct. 17, 1806
2 years
Assissinated

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

• A history of Dessalines from William Wells Brown, 1874
  
  
• A brief history of Dessalines from the journal of a missionary in 1825
  
  
• The Post-Revolutionary period: some material on Dessalines
  
  
• The 1805 Constitution of Haiti -- Dessalines
  
  
• The change of name from San Domingue (St. Domingo) to Hayti takes place under Dessalines
  
  
• For material that often deals with Dessalines, see Corbett's page on The Haitian Revolution

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