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Presidend Michel Martelly criticized for wearing blue jean, death of Dessalines

Presidend Michel Martelly criticized for wearing blue jean, death of Dessalines

Here is a picture where President Michel Martelly was wearing his blue jean and dressed casually in 2012 at the commemoration of the death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. he was criticized severely by many important members of the society for this action

Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born in Saint Domingue on September 20, 1806 as Jean-Jacques Duclos, his father's surname given by his slave owner. He worked in the sugar cane fields, rising to the position of foreman. At the age of 30, a freed slave, Dessalines, bought Jean-Jacques and gave him his surname, Dessalines.

In 1791 Dessalines participated in the slave rebellion, the prelude to the Haitian Revolution. He fought alongside Toussaint Louverture with the French to defeat the Spanish and British. When the French took steps to bring slavery back on Saint Domingue, Dessalines fought against them, defeating them at the Battle of Vertieres in 1803. The French surrendered and Dessalines proclaimed the Declaration of Independence and made himself emperor, Jacques I.

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