After the death of André Rigaud on September 18th 1811, who ruled the department from November 3rd 1810, for a limited time, Jérôme Maximilien Borgella succeeded him as President of the council of the Department of the South (21 Sep 1811 – 20 Mar 1812). He was elected by the departmental assembly as General-in-Chief of the Army of the South and as President of the council. General Borgella then gave in his adherence to Président of the Republic of Haiti (South of Haiti), Alexandre Pétion (1807-1818), consequently, there was a re-incorporation of the Department of the South to the rest of the Republic.
Président Jean-Pierre Boyer, who was president of a reunited Haiti in 1820 (1818-1843) and also annexed the newly independent Spanish Haiti (Santo Domingo), gave him important tasks and instructions. General Borgella will be loyal to him til his death on March 30 1844, in the city of Port-au-Prince.
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Source: Wikipedia / Stella:Novel of the Haitian Revolution / Worldstatemen.org
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After the departure of the Duvalier regime in 1986, the color of the flag reverted to the Blue and Red. According to a few sources, the people requested the return of the red and blue flag. On February 25 1986, they filled up a Proclamation and the new flag was adopted by February 26 1986. .
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Between 1964 and 1986, the family dictatorships of François “Papa Doc” and Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returned to Dessalines’ black and red design. They included the national coat of arms, but altered the flags in its trophy to black as well.

Because the coat of arms is only used for national and military flags, whereas the civil flag consists solely of the two unaugmented horizontal bands.

Under the presidency of François Duvalier, who called himself “noiriste”, an ideological movement born of the indigenous school, the literary movement « Griots » of which he was a founding member. In fact, Duvalier adopted the flag of Dessalines and Christophe to symbolize his political orientation and his ideological vision. Under his presidency, many mulattoes, in the departments of the South and Grand’Anse, were murdered to fight the prejudices of colors in Haiti. However, Duvalier had been very supportive of the economic emergence of the Levantines close to the Americans, as was the case with Dessalines with the Poles, the English and the Americans during the massacre of French whites. These are tactical choices to divide the strangers between themselves in order to maintain power.

Whether Dessalines, Christophe or Duvalier, the choice of colors of the flag by these politicians is still based on an ideological basis. Sources:Mathias Pierre / Wikipedia
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