By nationalizing the land left abandoned by French planters, Jean-Jacques Dessalines incurred the enmity of those who sought to become landowners based on their family ties.
[1] Blanchet was fired from his post as treasurer of Jérémie and became an agent of Henri Christophe tasked with convincing general Nicolas Geffrard to lead an insurrection against Dessalines,[2] who was assassinated by his collaborators on 17 October 1806 in Pont-Rouge north of Port-au-Prince.
[3] During the secession of the North of Haiti by King Henry, the South of the country became a republic under the military authority of Alexander Pétion.
He was one of the dominant voices in the crafting of a democratic constitution with a rigid separation of powers between the Senate and the President, which Pétion thought Christophe would not accept.
[7] On 10 March 1807, Alexander Pétion officially became President of the Republic and appointed Bruno Blanchet Secretary General of the Government.