Although Jean Jacques Dessalines, commander of the revolutionary forces in Haiti, encouraged his soldiers to commit atrocities, his tactics may have been necessary to ensure that slavery would not return to Haiti.

After winning independence for Haiti and expelling people of European ancestry from the country, military leader Jean Jacques Dessalines declared himself emperor for life in 1804.

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