Port-au-Prince, experiencing a lack of individual freedom,…

Port-au-Prince, experiencing a lack of individual freedom, rebels against Lysius Salomon’s government in 1887 because of its tyrannical policies.

Salomon's administration has made a huge effort to bring modernization to Haiti in the 1880s.

He adheres to the International Postal Union and has issued Haiti’s first postage stamp.

He had granted a British cable company the right to connect Port-au-Prince and Kingston, Jamaica, and by 1887 he has negotiated to link Môle Saint-Nicolas to Cuba.

He has restructured the medical school, imported teachers from France for the Lycées, and more.

The armed forces have been reorganized to sixteen thousand members and assigned to thirty-four infantry regiments and four artillery regiments.

Also, Salomon has reorganized the ranking distribution in the Haitian army, which had only included privates and generals.

The development of industrial sugar and rum industries near Port-au-Prince will make Haiti, for a while, a model for economic growth in Latin American countries.

Monetary reform and a cultural renaissance ensues with a flowering of Haitian art.