Article: Freedom Can't Be Enjoyed Yet, Haitians Say.

The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 14--Emboldened by Haiti's hard-won independence war, the feared and revered Gen. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a former slave turned revolutionary hero, addressed the first free black republic in the Western Hemisphere: "Citizens, it is not enough to have expelled from your country the barbarians who have bloodied it for two centuries . . . which held for so long our spirits in the most humiliating torpor. . . . We must at last live independent or die." The speech was delivered Jan. 1, 1804, in Gonaves, Haiti. Dessalines was the proud black warrior who tore the white out of the French flag to create a ...

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