biography
| name: |
Dessalines, Jean Jacques
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pronunciation:
[desaleen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1758–1806)
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| biography:
| Emperor of Haiti (1804–6), born a slave probably in Grande Rivière du Nord, N Haiti (formerly Saint Domingue). In the slave insurrection of 1791 he was second only to Toussaint L'Ouverture. After compelling the French to leave Haiti (1803), he was created governor and crowned emperor as Jacques I, but his despotic behaviour alienated his adherents and he was assassinated. |
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