Jean-jacques dessalines emperor nero
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines' Monument in Port-au-Prince
Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a leader of the Haitian slave indigenous army and the bravest character of his kind during the war of Haiti's independence.
Jean-jacques dessalines emperor nero
He was born in 1758 near Grande-Rivière-du-Nord, a small village located on the Northen part of Haiti not far from Cap-Haitien.
He lived on the plantation of "Vye kay" at a white colonist house, Henri Duclos, owner of a coffee-plantation, until he was bought very young by a free black man named Dessalines, who will give him his name and teach him to be a carpenter.
Dessalines lived a very difficult life.
He was a rebellious slave and his body was covered with scars left by iron rods. He often rose against the inequality that rages in Saint-Domingue and appeared to be a true military engineer.
In 1791, after joining the insurgent slaves against the French authority of Saint Domingue, with Boukman and Biassou, he was promoted at the rank of sen