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On Jan. 1, 1804, Dessalines declared the birth of a new nation, Haiti, the world’s first free Black republic.
A dozen people are in jail in northern Haiti after two prized cannons that predate the country’s founding in 1804 recently went missing. But that’s only half the mystery.
On Jan. 1, 1804, Dessalines declared the birth of a new nation, Haiti, the world’s first free Black republic.