The country started to face problems such as:

• The war tore the country apart.

• Everyone was scared that the French would invade.

• All plantations were burned or ruined due to the war.

• Due to the war, their industrial development was behind other countries.

• The huge sources of revenue for Haiti, slave trade, was closed.

• Due to the burned plantations and loss of revenue from the slave trade, the economy was bankrupt.

• Many of the people either died or left the country because of the war causing the population to plummet.

• The people that had skills in the country were gone to due free of the French.

• The rest of the international community was openly hostile to Haiti or uninterested despite a constitution of free persons, already in 1804, the directions toward despotic rule by a small, rich, powerful elite clique were forming.

• Other than the poverty the citizens of Haiti were proud of what they accomplished.

Also, Jean-Jacques Dessalines was the first leader of free and independent Haiti. After the revolution, he created the Haitian flag. The flag of Haiti(removed white from French flag) symbolizing removing the white from Haiti.