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1804-May-13

1804-May-13: Dessalines wrote to the Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, George Nugent, asserting his unique authority to treat for his citizens as an independen…

1804-May-13: Dessalines wrote to the Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, George Nugent, asserting his unique authority to treat for his citizens as an independent leader. He explicitly rejected the precedent of treating as a subject of France and demanded recognition as the head of a sovereign people.

Source  ·  p. 87 Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World, 87