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Who led enslaved Africans to independence in 1803? (1 Sentence)

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In 1803 during the Haitian Revolution, Jean-Jacques Dessalines led the rebels at the Battle of Vertieres on November 18, 1803. They defeated the French and in 1804, Dessalines declared Haiti independent.
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