Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam (4 March 1859 – 28 July 1915) was President of Haiti from 4 March to 27 July 1915. He was a cousin of Tirésias Simon Sam, Haiti’s president from 1896 to 1902.
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There was no mention of the name “Vilbrun” in his birth certificate when his parents presented him to the Civil Act officer.
They had given him the name of “Jean Simon”. However, he was always addressed and known around as “Vilbrun”. –
Born to Césarine César and Vilbon Guillaume, he was born in Ouanaminthe and was presented to the Civil Act officer in Grande-Rivière-du-Nord, where his father was from, 11 months later. This was probably due to the fact that his parents’ relationship was a fling. They had met in Ouanaminthe, but he had only been there for a short stay!
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President Pierre Jean-Louis “Race Relations Act 1845”

President Jean-Louis Pierrot introduced this act due to a series
of revolts in the South and split between the ranks of the mulatto class and dissatisfaction from the black masses.The color factor had been a major factor in Haitian politics since the colonial days. In order to manage the situation, he introduced the Race Relation Act.
Source: Thomas Madiou .
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The group of Dominican independence fighters was Called “La Trinitaria” (“The Trinity”), this organization was composed of Spanish Creoles, mulattoes, and blacks, they were led by Juan Pablo Duarte, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez and Matías Ramón Mella. Independence was proclaimed in the city of Santo Domingo on 27 February 1844, but on the following day a group of ex-slaves led by Santiago Basora, announced its opposition to the independentists. These men suspected that the rebels intended to reintroduce slavery; if this was true, the blacks were ready to fight alongside the Haitians. Trinitaria leaders realized the explosive nature of this situation and moved rapidly to defuse it. The very next day, 28 February provisional President Tomás Bobadilla and Vice-President Manuel Jimenes conferred with Basora and his supporters, and on the following day slavery was again declared abolished. The war to expel Haiti from Dominican soil was a great success: This was the last time ever Haiti would dominate the Dominican nation.
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An affranchis delegate in France and leader of a mulatto revolt. He had been educated in Paris and was the son of a wealthy butcher or coffee plantation owner in Le Cap. He led a revolt against the white colonial authorities in Saint-Domingue that lasted from October to November 1790 in the vicinity of Le Cap, Ogé’s revolt of 1790, many sectors of Saint-Domingue society were ready to take up arms to put an end to the French cruelties.
As a member of the Friends of the Negro (Amis des Noirs), Ogé had been frustrated by the Assembly’s refusal to extend the Rights of Man to mulattoes and decided to take matters into his own hands after his efforts in France such as the 1789 motion to the Assembly of Colonists in Paris did not lead to greater freedom for the affranchis in the colony. Revolutionary France seemed unwilling to extent the ideals of the French Revolution to all sectors of it’s colonial empire.
“While residing in Paris he made the acquaintance and enjoyed the familiar friendship of Brissot, Robespierre, Lafayette, and other revolutionists connected with the society Amis des Noirs. From these men he learned his lessons of freedom. (Langston)

From Grande Rivière, his camp in the Department of the North, Ogé sent a letter to the President of the Assembly of that department to voice is opinion against the prejudice done to all freemen (including Blacks and Mulattoes).
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