Boyer's Unification of Haiti

Following Henri Christophe's suicide on October 8, 1820, Jean-Pierre Boyer moved north with his republican forces and unified Haiti under a single government for the first time since 1806. Christophe's kingdom had governed the North and Artibonite since the division after Dessalines's assassination; Boyer's republic had controlled the South and West. Boyer's swift movement northward prevented a power vacuum and incorporated Christophe's former officials, though he dismantled the kingdom's monumental building projects and corvée system. Haiti entered a brief period of unified republican rule — before Boyer extended his reach to occupy the entire island of Hispaniola in 1822.