Jug, ca. 1806-10
Liverpool or Staffordshire, England
Creamware
Lent by the Chipstone Foundation

Though Toussaint L’Ouverture was the most famous figure associated with the Haitian Revolution, others who played a part in that historic event also became well known. This jug depicts Alexandre Pétion, a "mulatto" whose father was a Frenchman and whose mother was a black Haitian. He received a military education in France but returned to fight alongside the slave army. In 1806, after the death of Toussaint, Pétion was elected the first President of the independent Republic of Haiti.