🇭🇹✊🏽🏴 @el_tigrenegro . Born Christophe Henri on October 6, 1767 in Grenada, the son of a Bambara enslaved mother and Christophe, a free African man, he was brought as a slave to Saint-Domingue. In 1779 he served with the French forces as a drummer boy in Les Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue. They fought at the Siege of Savannah, a battle during the American Revolutionary War. . ✴✴ Beginning with the Slave Uprising of 1791, he rose to power in the ranks of the Haitian revolutionary military. The revolution succeeded in gaining independence from France in 1804. In 1805 he took part under Jean-Jacques Dessalines in the capturing of Santo Domingo (now Dominican Republic), against French forces who acquired the colony from Spain in the Treaty of Basel. . ✴✴ After Dessalines was assassinated, Christophe retreated to the Plaine-du-Nord and created a separate government. On February 17, 1807, he was elected President of the State of Haiti, as he named that area. Alexandre Pétion was elected president in the South. On 26 March 1811, Christophe created a kingdom in the North and was later proclaimed Henry I, King of Haïti. He also created a nobility and named his legitimate son Jacques-Victor Henry as prince and heir. . ✴✴ He is known for constructing Citadel Henry, now known as Citadelle Laferrière, the Sans-Souci Palace, and numerous other palaces. Under his policies of corvée, government regulated farming, the Kingdom earned revenues from agricultural production, primarily sugar; but the people resented the system. He reached agreement with Great Britain to respect its Caribbean colonies in exchange for their warnings to his government of any French navy activity threatening Haiti. Unpopular, ill and fearing a coup, he committed suicide on October 8, 1820. His son and heir was assassinated 10 days later. The general Jean-Pierre Boyer came to power and reunited the two parts of Haiti. ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃ #kiyesouye #kimounouye #kotewsoti #ayisyenmwenye #negritude #PanAfricanism #Haiti #Ayiti #whitesupremacy #racism #sexism #feminism #BlackWomenMatter #BlackMenMatter #BlackLivesMatter #blackunity ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃ (at Haiti) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3S7TvjhNTe/?igshid=1bsd3c2thanzk
