Gorry C

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Haiti is a country that appears fleetingly in the English-speaking media, when stricken by disaster or more recently by epithets. Perhaps few are aware that Haiti was the first independent nation in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the world’s first black republic independence declared on January 1, 1804 in a revolution led by former slaves who defeated Napoleon’s 40,000-strong colonial forces. Or that, when others abandoned the independence wars against Spain, Simón Bolívar appealed to Haitian president Alexandre Pétion and with Pétión’s troops and material aid, went on to free slaves across Spanish-held colonies in Latin America.