Sylvain Salnave , born with the Cape-Haitian on February 7th, 1826, died in Port-au-Prince in 1870, was president of Haiti of 1867 to 1870.

His/her mother Ragonse Young girl and Her Father Sylvestre Salnave. He was soldier of the army of independence, born from middle-class father he received a particular instruction.

Sylvain Salnave was large a Haitian Révolutionnaire. He organized resistance to the Haitian course his birthplace against the government of Fabre Nicolas Geffrard this last made alliance with English and gave them the order to bombard Salnave which due to go in exile to Dominican Republic and has its return of the Cape took the weapons gained the confidence of the population and returned has Port with the Prince as a triumphant victor. The room ratified its Presidency. It had a great number of valid collaborators like: Frederique Marcellin who was her ambassador has Washington.

Sylvain Salnave in all the handbooks of History Haitian is described like a anti-Middle-class man, it asked them to pay the taxes in order to improve the fate of the population, cause a drop in the prices of the products of first need, the middle-class men refused and preferred to fight its government while making burst the WAR A LITTLE EVERYWHERE THROUGH the COUNTRY. Then Salnave called its Minister for the hfinances and ordered to him: " Build to me the stores of the state, which exists still nowadays. This act made him the first Socialist government of Caribbean and improved the fate of the people.

Salnave of being acquired warships to reinforce its navy. The Haitian economy paid the consequences of them, the Haitian currency was devaluated and one needed several thousands of gourds for an American dollar. The Haitian Middle-class was arranged to make jump the national palate, Heureusement Salnave was under its tent with its soldiers, it left the palate in ruin. Not having ammunition to face this rebellion has went to small town Petion-City located at ten kilometers of the Capital with a Battalion of thousand Men approximately, spent one week to the barracks before making the decision to go to Dominican Republic with an aim of requesting the assistance of its counterpart Dominicain President Báez, in his road towards Dominicanie it had the bad luck to be to lodge by Ogando which delivered it to the Cabral General for a gold handle, the sector anti Salnave continued to disparage its memory, while the President Dominicain Joachim Balager wrote an article on Salnave to excuse the horrible gesture of Cabral, it entitled its article: . Hundred years later, the name Salnave is still synonymous with Freedom.