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Haiti

Three-column printed Haitian Declaration of Independence dated 1 January 1804, headed Liberté ou la Mort and Armée Indigène

Haiti’s Independence and the Price of Recognition

Haiti defeated French rule in 1804. Its struggle for recognition exposed the distance between emancipation, sovereignty, and the indemnity demanded in 1825.

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