'Le Cap': Cap-Haïtien on Haiti’s north coast
Statue of the first ruler of Haiti, Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758 - 1806). He was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1801 constitution. Autocratic in his rule, he crowned himself Emperor of Haiti in 1805.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Thu May 22, 1980