Caribbean Archives - Age of Revolution

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A wooden, sculpted bust of Jean-Jaques Dessaline, he is dressed in military uniform with a feathered, bicorne hat. His face is quite narrow and stylised.

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Resource : The Haitian revolution (1791-1804)

The first – and only – successful uprising of enslaved Africans, establishing Haiti as the first independent ‘black’ republic.