Haiti

Continent: North America
Capital: Port-au-Prince
Abolition Date:1804
Start Date: January 1510
Currency: Gourde

Languages Spoken: Creole and French (both official)
Population: As estimated in late 2006, is 8,288,000.
National Anthem: "La Dessalinienne" (The Dessalines Song)

January 1510: the start of the systematic transportation of African slaves to the New World: King Ferdinand of Spain authorises a shipment of 50 African slaves to be sent to Santo Domingo.

1791-1803 Some 500,000 enslaved Africans sucessfully revolt in Haiti, 1804 Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaims the independence of Haiti, which becomes the second republic in the Western Hemisphere.

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