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Bookmark or Share- Jean-Jacques Dessalines (c. 1758-1806) - Haiti and the Atlantic WorldDessalines’s speech represents the world’s second successful declaration of independence to form a lasting nation-state, after the United States, and it also created the second independent nation in the Americas.
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Death, Facts & Life - BiographyJean-Jacques Dessalines was a military leader who worked with Toussaint L'Ouverture and gave the country of Haiti its name.
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines | Revolutionary leader, Liberator, Haitian ...Jean-Jacques Dessalines (born c. 1758, West Africa—died October 17, 1806, Pont Rouge, near Port-au-Prince, Haiti) was the emperor of Haiti who proclaimed his country’s independence in 1804. Dessalines was brought to the French West Indian colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) as a slave.
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines - WikipediaJean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Jan-Jak Desalin; French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak dɛsalin]; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was the first Haitian Emperor, leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution.
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806) - BlackpastUnlike L’Overture, Dessalines was treated harshly as a slave and violence became a way of life that marked him throughout his military and brief political career contributing both to his success on the battlefield and to his eventual downfall.
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