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Meet Haiti's founding father, whose black revolution was too radical for Thomas Jefferson

  • Written by Julia Gaffield, Assistant Professor of History, Georgia State University
A statue in Port-au-Pirnce honors Jean-Jacques Dessalines' legacy as a Haitian revolutionary. Now, a renamed Brooklyn street does, too.AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery

Crowds cheered as local lawmakers on August 18 unveiled a street sign showing that Rogers Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn would now be called Jean-Jacques Dessalines Boulevard,...

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