ALEXANDER PETION
ONLY KING OF HAITI

Marck 1807 - March 1818
11 years
Died in office

Alexander Petion

Alexander Petion

• Setting the problematic facing the nation; the rule of Dessalines, Christophe and Petion.

• Alexander Petion's rejection of French recolinization in 1816

• The result of the Boyer/Petion years: subsistence farming

• 1816 visit from Quaker missionary, Stephen Grellet.

• For material that often deals with Petion.

• Also see Corbett's page on The Haitian Revolution and special essays on the revolution

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