Dessalines

• “In 1893, Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis organized a colored company in Chicago, and produced "Dessalines,”

  Evidences of Progress Among Colored People

• “He calls the former professor "Dessalines," a reference to Jean-Jacques Dessalines, once of”

  GlobalResearch.ca

• “He calls the former professor "Dessalines," a reference to Jean-Jacques Dessalines, once of Haiti's liberators.”

  Free Internet Press

• “In 1802, after L'Ouverture's capture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines became revolutionary leader.”

  Letter 129

• “It did so in the late 1790s and early 1800s under the generalships of the legendary Toussaint L'Ouverture and Jacques Dessalines and it has seemed that ever since that day the country has been made to do a penance for such an insolence — with that independence being twisted into a rough abandonment, save for the plundering by nearby powers, Haiti unfortunately still needed to get by from day to day.”

  Archive 2010-02-01

• “In short summary Toussaint Louverture was a brilliant strategist and Dessalines was absolutely ruthless.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil?

• “He looked at Dessalines again, waving on his horse.”

  The Huffington Post: Haiti Suffers Year Of Crisis With Nobody In Charge

• “Above it stood the statue of Dessalines on a horse, waving to his left.”

  The Huffington Post: Haiti Suffers Year Of Crisis With Nobody In Charge

• “If Dessalines were alive today, Aliodor says, he would lead the people in a revolution against the government, foreign soldiers and other foreigners who aren't helping.”

  The Huffington Post: Haiti Suffers Year Of Crisis With Nobody In Charge

• “In 1806, Dessalines himself was brutally assassinated, touching off a cycle of political violence that would haunt Haiti for the next two centuries.”

  Haiti and America's Historic Debt

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