Haitian president Geffrard encourages educated mulattoes to…
July 1862 CE
Haitian president Geffrard encourages educated mulattoes to join his government and establishes Haitian respectability abroad.
The Lincoln Administration finally recognizes Haitian independence after the secession of the Southern slave-holding states plunges the United States into civil war, sending Frederick Douglass as its Consular Minister in 1862.