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1749

1749: The Rise of Port-au-Prince: Port-au-Prince is officially established as the new capital.

1749: The Rise of Port-au-Prince: Port-au-Prince is officially established as the new capital. It replaced Le Cap as the administrative center to better govern the growing West and South provinces. Nuance: The founding of the capital and the Masonic Lodge (Saint Jean de Jérusalem) in the same year highlights the formalization of the white elite’s intellectual and administrative infrastructure. The lodge became a space where Enlightenment ideas circulated, ironically providing the philosophical tools that would later be used to challenge slavery.

Source Girard, Haiti: The Tumultuous History, 36; Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 36; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 23