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Sonthonax proclaims emancipation in northern Saint-Domingue

📅 29 Ougùstùs 1793

French commissioner Sonthonax proclaimed freedom for enslaved people in northern Saint-Domingue amid the revolution and a military crisis involving French, Spanish, and British forces. Enslaved...