1844-May-10
1844-May-10: Louis Jean-Jacques Acaau issued a formal “Adresse” to the citizens of the South, vowing to fight until the rights of the poor were recognized.
1844-May-10: Louis Jean-Jacques Acaau issued a formal “Adresse” to the citizens of the South, vowing to fight until the rights of the poor were recognized. He became the symbolic head of a movement that sought to challenge the traditional urban elite’s monopoly on power.
Source · p. 276
Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 276