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I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom

I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom

Gaffield, Julia

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralCaribbean HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 0300255470
ISBN13: 9780300255478
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.70
Language: English

A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti's fight for independence from French colonial rule

My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery, declared Jean-Jacques Dessalines as he announced the independence of Haiti, the most radical nation-state during the Age of Revolution and the first country ever to permanently outlaw slavery. Enslaved for the first thirty years of his life, Dessalines (c. 1758-1806) joined the revolution that abolished slavery within the French colony. Then he became a general in the colonial army of the new French Republic. When it was discovered that France once again supported slavery, Dessalines declared war on his former allies. Fighting under the slogan Liberty or Death, his army forced the French to evacuate in late 1803. At the start of the new year, Dessalines declared independence from France and became the leader of a free Haiti.

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