The second decade of the nineteenth century has just begun, and we are in Haiti, the Caribbean country that has just proclaimed its independence from France. The alliance between the former African slaves and the mulattoes that led to that epic has collapsed. Thus, two years after the proclamation of independence, the country was already on the verge of civil war and divided between two opposing governments: one in the southern and western regions, presided over by Alexandre Petion; the other established in the northern parts under the leadership of Henry Christophe, who proclaimed himself king and in so doing created the Kingdom of Haiti.

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