About this picture: Haiti's Declaration of Independence
A graduate student from Duke University, Julia Gaffield, found what is believed to be the only surviving printed copy of Haiti's Declaration of Independence while doing research at the British National Archives in London.
This pictures show the actual Haiti's Declaration of Independence document produced in January 1804:
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Jean-Jacque Dessalines government sent the Declaration of Independence of Haiti to other governments in the days after the birth of the new country in 1804.
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Historians believe that following Haiti's Declaration of Independence, the Haitian leaders were busy worrying about the possibility of new invasions to think about preserving a copy of the Declaration of Independence.
Copies were sent to governments all over the world, declaring that they had thrown off their colonial masters, ended slavery and created the world's first black republic.
A copy of Haiti's Declaration of Independence was went to the colonial government in Jamaica's which ended up in the British archives.