Jean Jacques Dessalines did what for post-revolutionary Haiti?
a. Returned it to French control
b. Led Napoleon’s forces to arrest L’Ouverture
c. Enslaved all the white plantation owners
d. Proclaimed himself emperor
e. Sold the colony to Portugal
Ans: d
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