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1807-03-09

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 oligarch-led senate.

Source  ·  p. 116, 118 Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World, 116, 118