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Black People in European Sculpture Project

Dessalines, Jean-Jacques

Title

  • Dessalines, Jean-Jacques

Given name

  • Jean-Jacques Duclos

First name

  • Jean-Jacques

Last name

  • Dessalines

Date of birth

  • 20 September 1758

Place of birth

Date of death

  • 17 October 1806

Place of death

Occupation

  • Former slave
  • Insurgent during slave rebellion
  • Military leader
  • First ruler of an independent Haiti (1804-1806)

Gender assigned

  • Male

Nationality

  • Haitian

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Title Alternate label Class
Jean-Jacques DessalinesJean-Jacques Dessalines Identity of Black person (real or fictive) E22 Man-Made Object

‘Dessalines, Jean-Jacques’ (no date), Black People in European Sculpture, accessed May 5, 2025, http://13.41.147.145/s/database/item/207

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