Tag: Jean-Jacques Dessalines

  • The many meanings of the Haitian declaration of independence OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2014-01-03 Philippe R. Girard, Associate Professor of History McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana Two hundred and ten years ago, on 1 January 1804, Haiti formally declared its independence from France at the end of a…