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Louis Jean-Jacques Acaau
Louis Jean-Jacques Acaau (died 1846) was a Haitian peasant leader and former army officer who led the piquets, an uprising of black smallholders in southern Haiti, in 1844. Demanding land, cheaper imported goods and justice for the poor against the mixed-race elite, the revolt helped bring down President Charles Rivière-Hérard. Acaau later rebelled again and took his own life in 1846.
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