Statecraft & Independence
Landmark
Alexandre Pétion
1770 – 1818
President of the southern republic who aided Simón Bolívar
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Why they are here
A revolutionary general who governed the Republic of Haiti in the south from 1807 to 1818 and redistributed land to small farmers.
Pétion gave refuge, weapons and money to Simón Bolívar in 1815 and 1816, asking only that Bolívar free the enslaved in the lands he liberated.
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