Jean-Jacques Dessalines steps into the power vacuum left behind by Toussaint L'Ouverture, and helps to lead the Haitian people to a final victory against the French. But while the newly created nation of Haiti had secured its independence, its woes were far from over.

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Bibliography:

Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the New World: the Story of the Haitian Revolution. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Dubois, Laurent. Haiti: The Aftershocks of History. Metropolitan Books, 2012

Fick, Carolyn. The Making of Haiti: the Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. The University of Tennessee Press, 2004. 

Geggus, David. The Haitian Revolution: a Documentary History. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2014.

James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Vintage Books, 1989.

Cover Image: Battle of Santo Domingo (also known as Battle of Palm Tree Hill) painting by Polish artist January Suchodolski, 1845.

Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák.

Closing Theme: "Ogou Feray" by Racine Mapou de Azor.