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Jean Jacques, an emperor of Haiti; born in Africa about 1760; was a slave in 1791, when the insurrection of the blacks occurred in that island, but was set free along with the other slaves in St. Domingo in 1794. His talents for war, his courage, and unscrupulous conduct raised him to command in the insurrections of the colored people, and after the deportation of To us saint L’Ouverture, and the subsequent evacuation of the island by the French, Des salines was appointed governor general for life with absolute power; and the year following (1804) was declared emperor with the title of Jacques I.; but his rule was savage and oppre ive, and both the troops and the people, sick of his atrocities, entered into a conspiracy against him, and, Oct. 17, 1806, he was slain by one of his soldiers. De au,a town of North Germany; capital of the Duchy of Anhalt; on the left bank of the Mulde, not far from its 4 with the Elbe, 70 miles S. W. of Berlin. Pop. (1900) 50,851. 3 Desterro, a seaport of Brazil, capital of the province of Santa-Catharina. The harbor is, next to that of Rio de Janeiro, the best on the Brazilian coast.