If you love Haiti, this is the perfect gold metal pendant of our map. On January 1st 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, an African-born ex-slave could declare Haiti independent. It was the first black republic in the world and the first country in the Western hemisphere to abolish slavery completely. ðŸ‡ðŸ‡¹ðŸ‡ðŸ‡¹ðŸ‡ðŸ‡¹
