[DOC] [TLE] Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Governor, Emperor, General - Biography ... [PAR] Mar 16, 2015 ... Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a military leader who worked with Toussaint L'
Ouverture and gave the country of Haiti its name. ... Initially, their fight was to free 
all slaves on the island, but over time the goal would ... In 1804, Dessalines 
proclaimed independence and in 1805 declared himself emperor. [DOC] [TLE] Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Wikipedia [PAR] Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first 
ruler of an ... Declaring Haiti an independent nation in 1804, Dessalines was 
chosen by a ... During this time, Dessalines was known as Jean-Jacques Duclos; 
his last ... In 1794, after the French declared an end to slavery, Toussaint 
Louverture... [DOC] [TLE] Haitian Revolution - Wikipedia [PAR] One thing is sure: Haiti became an independent country on January 1, 1804, 
when the council of generals chose Jean-Jacques Dessalines to assume the 
office... [DOC] [TLE] Jean-Jacques Dessalines | emperor of Haiti | Britannica.com [PAR] Dec 18, 2014 ... Emperor of Haiti who proclaimed his country's independence in 1804. 
Dessalines was brought to the French West Indian colony of ... In 1803, however, 
when Napoleon declared his intention to reintroduce slavery (which had been ... 
1804, Dessalines, as governor-general, proclaimed the entire island of... [DOC] [TLE] Dessalines, the Flag, and Independence, Haiti 1804 [PAR] The conquest of this portion of the territory of the island had thus been completed. 
... Their right to own their country was more just, more legitimate, than that of the 
... a declaration of independence in the first days of December 1803, Dessalines 
... shared the slavery and the sufferings of the first Africans brought to their land;... [DOC] [TLE] Haitian independence proclaimed - Jan 01, 1803 - HISTORY.com [PAR] On this day in History, Haitian independence proclaimed on Jan 01, 1803. ... Two 
months after his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte's colonial forces, Jean-Jacques ... 
and in 1801 conquered the Spanish portion of island, freeing the slaves there. ... 
In 1804, General Dessalines assumed dictatorial power, and Haiti became the... [DOC] [TLE] Jean Jacques Dessalines Biography - Like [PAR] Jean Jacques Dessalines was born in a sugarcane plantation in the Grande 
Riviere ... who would later adopt the last name Dessalines, after Haiti's 
Independence. ... About 30 years old, Dessalines escaped and joined the slave 
revolution that ... soldiers, brought them to within the sight of the French and hung 
them all up. [DOC] [TLE] Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) | The Black Past: Remembered and ... [PAR] Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ... 
wealthiest overseas colony, largely because of its production of sugar, coffee, ... 
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of l'Overture's generals and himself a former ... On 
January 1, 1804, Dessalines declared the nation independent and renamed it 
Haiti. [DOC] [TLE] Dessalines, Jean-Jacques (1758-1806) | The Black Past ... [PAR] Like L'Overture, Dessalines was born into slavery in the French colony of Saint 
Dominque. ... Haiti for his country, the name used by the island's aboriginal 
inhabitants. Independence, however, did not bring peace, and from January 
1804 until... [DOC] [TLE] Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the Atlantic System: A Reappraisal [PAR] JEAN-JACQUES Dessalines, slave, revolutionary, and first leader of independent 
Haiti ... Island of St. Domingo, from Its First Discovery by Columbus to the Present 
Period (1818; repr., .... and the strategic and commercial needs of his new 
country. ..... Haiti's 1804 declaration of independence, overtly aspired to 
statehood by. [DOC] [TLE] Haitian Declaration of Independence, January 1, 1804 | Haiti Chery [PAR] Dec 30, 2011 ... A translation of the Haitian Declaration of Independence by Laurent Dubois and 
John Garrigus as published in: Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789  1804: 
A Brief ... assure the empire of liberty in the country of our

Question: Jean Jacques Dessalines, brought to this island country as a slave, declared its independence in 1804
Answer: Haiti