Jean Pierre Boyer (1776-1850) was a president of Haiti whose most noteworthy activities were the promulgation of the Rural Code of 1826 and the negotiation of final French recognition of Haitian independence in the same year.
Exiled by the Haitian leader Pierre Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture, Boyer returned with the French troops of Gen. Charles Leclerc, whose mission was to break the power of Toussaint and his associates and to reintroduce slavery to the colony.
Boyer served him as secretary and minister and succeeded him as president of Southern Haiti upon Pétion's death in 1818.
Boyer soon sided with his countrymen, however, unifying the fl and mulatto factions to drive the French from the country.
In 1825 Boyer agreed to pay France a large indemnity for official recognition of the independence of Haiti.
In order to meet the payments, he was forced to initiate heavy taxation, a measure that aroused great discontent and resulted in 1843 in the overthrow of his government and in his permanent exile.
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