Haiti Declares Independence: First Black Republic
Haiti became the first Black republic in history. Second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere after the United States. Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed independence on January 1, 1804, after a thirteen-year slave revolt that defeated Napoleon's army. France had sent 20,000 troops to retake the colony. Yellow fever and Haitian fighters destroyed most of them. The new nation took its name from the Taíno word "Ayiti," meaning land of mountains. France demanded 150 million francs in reparations for lost slave property. Haiti paid it. The debt crippled the country for over a century.
January 1, 1804
222 years ago
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