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André Rigaud
André Rigaud was a leader of the free people of colour in southern Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution. He fought the British occupation in the 1790s but lost the War of the Knives against Toussaint Louverture in 1799–1800 and went into exile. Returning in 1810, he set up the State of South Haiti in opposition to Alexandre Pétion and died the next year.
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