On June 7, 1892, Haitian President Florvil Hyppolite crushed a major uprising in the northern region of the country. This revolt, led by rival factions opposing Hyppolite’s modernization agenda and French-aligned diplomacy, was part of a broader series of 19th-century struggles for political control in post-revolutionary Haiti. Hyppolite’s military success stabilized his presidency temporarily but deepened class and color tensions between Haiti’s Black rural majority and the elite mulatto political class. These conflicts reflected the unresolved contradictions of Haiti’s independence.
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