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1801-Jul.-07

1801-Jul.-07: Toussaint Louverture promulgates an autonomous constitution, naming himself Governor-General for Life.

1801-Jul.-07: Toussaint Louverture promulgates an autonomous constitution, naming himself Governor-General for Life. This bold political move effectively established Saint-Domingue as an independent state while remaining nominally French.

Source Bell, Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, 114; Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 240; Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 23; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 29