Article 12: How Haiti Made Every Citizen Legally Black
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Article 12: How Haiti Made Every Citizen Legally Black

The newly free people of Haiti voted on their first constitution in 1804, then quietly inserted a clause that made their revolution unlike any other in human history.

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HaitiCaribbean19th CenturyColonialismSlavery and AbolitionJean-Jacques DessalinesReparationsConstitutional History

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