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Show j HAITIAN REVOLTS Tha first of hundreds of revolutions y i In tha .aland of Haiti occurred 131 i yeare ago when tha negroes revolted ' against their French ma fere and killed many of them. In 179S another insurrection broke ut and nearly all tha whites on tha Island were massacred. massa-cred. Tousalnt l'Ouverture became the leader of tha rebela 1n 1801, and. although he surrendered and waa transported to France, where ha died, tha Insurrection he started waa aue- ceasful. Jn 180S tha Infamous Dosaa-11 Dosaa-11 nee started another revolution, decreed de-creed the maasacra of all tha whltea, and was proclaimed emperor. Be waa aasaaalnated In 110 whan Henri Chrletophe proclaimed himself king, nines then Haiti has bad a revolution almost every year and preatdents have aucceeded each other la bewildering auccesslon. , |