Age of Revolutions · TURNING POINT ·
Haiti declares independence (1804)
On the Age of Revolutions map as “Independence at Gonaïves”
1 Jan 1804 — Dessalines proclaims the free state of Haiti — the Taíno name, chosen deliberately — in the square of Gonaïves. The age’s only revolution of the enslaved is complete.
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- Haitian Revolution (chapter 5 of Age of Revolutions)
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- The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848
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