King Henry seeks reconciliation with the south…
March 1818 CE
King Henry seeks reconciliation with the south after Pétion's death at foirty-eight on March 29, 1818, but the southern mulatto elite rejects the notion of submission to a black leader.
Because the president-for-life had died without naming a successor, the republican senate selects General Jean-Pierre Boyer, Pétion's mulatto secretary and commander of the Presidential Guard, to fill the post.