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People Who Touched Haiti Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable 1745-1818, Alexandre Petion 1770-1818, Jean Jacques Dessalines 1758-1806, Toussaint Louverture Francois Dominique 1744-1803, Henri Christophe 1767-1820

Jean-Jacques Dessalines (September 20, 1758-October 17, 1806) was the first ruler of an independent Haiti. Behind him stands the revolutionary flag which was made, according to legend, when Dessalines ripped the white out of the French flag and had…

Haitian bank notes: 250 (Jean Jacques Dessalines), 500 (Alexandre Petion), 1,000 (Florvil Hyppolite) (framed)