1807-Mar.
1807-Mar.: Alexandre Pétion was elected president of the Republic of the South under a constitution that reaffirmed the total abolition of slavery.
1807-Mar.: Alexandre Pétion was elected president of the Republic of the South under a constitution that reaffirmed the total abolition of slavery. The republic sought to create a less authoritarian society than the North, though power remained concentrated in the elite-led senate.
Source · p. 116, 118
Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World, 116, 118