LC control no. | n 88235192 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806 |
Variant(s) | Jacques I, Emperor of Haiti, 1758-1806 |
See also | Haiti. Sovereign (1804-1806 : Jacques I) |
Other standard no. | 0000 0000 3153 6351 54399820 Q212068 |
Biography/History note | Jean-Jacques Dessalines (20 September 1758 - 17 October 1806) was a Haitian revolutionary, the leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution. He was later named Emperor of Haiti as Jacques I (1804-1806). |
Associated country | Haiti |
Birth date | 1758-09-20 |
Death date | 1806-10-17 |
Place of birth | Equatorial Guinea Saint-Domingue |
Place of death | Haiti |
Profession or occupation | Haiti--Kings and rulers Emperors Revolutionaries Generals |
Found in | Franco, F.J. Haiti, de Dessalines a nuestros días, 1988: p. 9 (Jean Jacques Dessalines) LC data base, 04-19-89 (hdg.: Dessalines, Jean Jacques, Emperor of Haiti, 1758-1806) GDEL (Dessalines, Jean-Jacques; empereur of Haiti) Lois et actes sous le règne de Jean Jacques Dessalines, 2006: t.p. verso (l'Empereur Jacques Premier) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed April 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Dessalines, Jean-Jacques; king, revolutionary, slave; born 1758 in Haiti; runaway slave at a young age; became a partisan of the slave uprising (1792); became Toussaint Louverture's second in command (1793) and helped him consolidate control of the island; promoted to general and made governor of the southern portion of the island; initiated a new rebellion that ended successfully (1804) and declared Haiti independent from France; renamed the country Haiti and appointed\ himself governor for life; proclaimed himself Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (1804); was assassinated and died 1806 in Haiti) Bibliothèque nationale de France WWW auth. file, Oct. 18, 2019 (hdg.: Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806 ; b.: Sept. 20, 1758, Equatorial Guinea ; d.: Oct. 17, 1806, Haiti ; nat.: Haiti ; Revolutionary black Haitian, self-proclaimed Emperor of Haiti (1804-1806)) |