1805 Imperial Constitution: art. 1 "The people inhabiting the island formerly called St. Domingo... under the name of empire of Hayti"; art. 2 "Slavery is forever…

SUMMARY1805 Imperial Constitution: art. 1 "The people inhabiting the island formerly called St. Domingo... under the name of empire of Hayti"; art. 2 "Slavery is forever abolished"; art. 12 no white man as master or proprietor; art. 13 exception for naturalized white women and their children; art. 14 "the Haytians shall hence forward be known only by the generic appellation of Blacks"; art. 19-20 Dessalines "Emperor"; art. 23 "The crown is elective not hereditary"; art. 26 the Emperor designates his successor; art. 37 style "THE EMPEROR I. OF HAYTI." Search result: "Africa" and "Indian" do not appear anywhere in the text. Record. Lens reading: the founding documents call the people "natives of Haiti" (1804) and "Blacks" (1805), with no mention of Africa.