Saint-Domingue colonial government

French authorities execute maroon resistance leader François Mackandal

📅 20 January 1758

François Mackandal, an African-born maroon and organizer associated with a wide anticolonial resistance network, was condemned and executed by French authorities at Cap-Français. Colonial records...

French civil commissioners arrive amid revolt and colonial crisis

📅 18 September 1792

Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Étienne Polverel, and Jean-Antoine Ailhaud arrived in Saint-Domingue with troops to enforce the rights of free people of color and restore French authority. They initially...