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

By Julia Gaffield
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$35.00
By Julia Gaffield
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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 rev...

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BiographyHistoryHistorical BiographyLatin American HistoryCaribbean & West Indian HistoryHistorical Biography - General & MiscellaneousHaiti - History