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Rediscovering Haiti's Declaration of Independence | The Declaration's Text (in Translation)

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The following is a translation of the document by Laurent Dubois and John Garrigus as published in "Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789 - 1804: A Brief History with Documents." The Commander in Chief to the People of Haiti It is not enough to have expelled the barbarians who have bloodied our land for two centuries; it is not enough to have restrained those ever-evolving factions that one after another mocked the specter of liberty that France dangled before you. We must, with one last act of national authority, forever assure the empire of liberty in the country of our birth; we must take any hope of re-enslaving us away from the inhuman government that for so long kept us in the most humiliating torpor. In the end we must live independent or die. Independence or death... let these sacred words unite us and be the signal of battle and of our reunion. Citizens, my countrymen, on this solemn day I have brought together those courageous soldiers who, as liberty lay dying, spilled thei

Rediscovering Haiti's Declaration of Independence | The Declaration's Text (in Translation) --> The following is a translation of the document by Laurent Dubois and John Garrigus as published in " Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789 - 1804: A Brief History with Documents ." The Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804 By November of 1803, Saint-Domingue's rebel forces had driven the last of Leclerc's invasion force out of the colony. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who had been Toussaint's most renowned general, led this combination of ex-slaves and former free men of color, whose officers referre

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