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1822-Feb.-09

1822-Feb.-09: President Boyer leads his troops into the eastern part of the island to unify the entire island of Hispaniola.

1822-Feb.-09: President Boyer leads his troops into the eastern part of the island to unify the entire island of Hispaniola. This period of unification brought the entire population under Haitian law for the next twenty-two years. Significance: Restored territorial unity and attempted long-term political stabilization. Nuance: Fick underscores that reunification did not resolve underlying structural tensions between state authority and peasant society — tensions inherited directly from the revolutionary period.

Source Fick, The Making of Haiti pp351-356; Girard, Haiti: The Tumultuous History, 62; Trouillot, Haiti: State Against Nation, 47; Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 27; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 34