Jean Jacques Dessalines on Social Medias

Hi, sweets! Today I want to share with you some links from social networks. Almost all of them concern to the previous topic, mister Dessalines.

• Lifestream. A social service launched by AOL. It's easy to include other services to add post from them. On our account you can find some links about topic.
• Webs.com. Not the best blog service which I have ever used, but it's free. The mentioned blog contains some interesting articles.
• Wixsite.com. A blog service providing full control of your blog. There are some cool free templates. Follow link to see beautiful example of blog and comprehensive article about Jean Jacques Dessalines.
• Bobrdobr. A Russian bookmark service. Boring ads and strange design. Maybe you find some interesting links there.
• Bookmarky. One more bookmark service. From Czech Republic this time. Follow some interesting links shared in this account.
• Spinsnap. A service similar to StumbleUpon, but it's a little stupid one. There are a lot of bugs and ugly moments on it.
• Weebly. A free blog. Beautiful design, easy-to-use, and absolutely free. Besides you will read a nice article about our topic if you follow the link.

Dessalines is coming...

Hello, I commence the series posts about mister Dessalines. What do you know about him? I expect that nothing. Meanwhile he was the first Emperor of Haiti and maybe the most important person in its history.

By the time of Dessalines, the island of Haiti had been divided by political borders into 2 different states. One part belonged to Spain (now it is Dominican Republic), while the second one was French property. After colonization of these territories by Europeans those carried on the island about half of million black slaves from Africa. Poor slaves usually worked on plantations of sugarcane and didn't very pleased with this. After epic French revolution had started in Paris, echo of it began to sound over the ocean. In 1791 year the first slave riot broke out, which evolved future Emperor of the independent Haiti Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

In a little while the ruler of France Napoleon sent his troops to suppress the slave rebellion. After series of maneuvers and sieges French army was forced to surrender, while Jean-Jacques Dessalines became the Emperor of Haiti. You can think that former slaves gained the freedom and happiness. But it turned out that just like in most of similar cases this idea was utopian. Instead of building the flourishing state of African people the New World got pure African state. Dirt is still poured out in rivers, roads are similar rather to a field, and people like sitting on a fence. It is the result of the only successful rebellion of slaves...

After long separation

Hi, dears! Sorry for delay, I was a little busy this time. But fortunately I am ready again and glad to share with you some important links concerning to our beloved project.

• A web-directory, containing some interesting resources about history, including our
• The first German portal with profile of the project
• My colleague's profile on LinkedIn, containing articles written by her for us
• A page hosted by Dropbox, offering the list of some of the most comprehensive timelines
• A profile on Technerd, a site providing new technologies and inventions
• One another profile of the project on one another social network
• Web archive, that shows how the project looked before