Cap-Haïtien became the capital of the Kingdom of Northern Haiti under a king that was a former slave of what ethnicity?
Henri Christophe Henri Christophe (] ; 6 October 1767 – 8 October 1820; used the anglicized version of Henry Christopher) was a former slave of Bambara ethnicity, and perhaps of Ibo descent, and key leader in the Haitian Revolution, which succeeded in gaining independence from France in 1804. In 1805 he took part under Jean-Jacques Dessalines in the capturing of Santo Domingo (now Dominican Republic), against French forces who acquired the colony from Spain in the Treaty of Basel.
Harry Washington Harry Washington was a one-time West African slave of the future first president of the United States, George Washington. He escaped and served as a corporal in the Black Pioneers attached to a British artillery unit. After the war he emigrated to Nova Scotia where he married Jenny and then migrated to Sierra Leone, West Africa. In 1800 he joined a rebellion, against the British colonial authorities, in the Sierra Leone Colony, and was exiled to the Bullom Shore, where he subsequently died.