Haiti’s independence declaration was modeled on the U.S. Declaration
Evidence
On December 31, 1803, Dessalines was presented with a draft of the independence declaration. Written by an elderly and educated man of color, “an admirer of the work of Jefferson,” the document was modeled on the U.S. Declaration of Independence and “set forth all the rights of the black race, and the just complaints” that the population had against France. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1051
Categorization
- XREF: Connects squarely to the wider Atlantic revolutionary arc and the reader’s interest in Haiti’s links to American and French revolutionary models. — connects to: Haiti’s independence declaration was modeled on the American document but rewritten fiercely.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Haiti’s independence declaration was modeled on the American document but rewritten fiercely.