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Saint-Domingue colonial assembly

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Saint-Domingue colonial assembly

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French Assembly grants political rights to a limited group of free men of color

📅 15 May 1791

The French National Assembly voted to extend political rights to free men of color born to free parents. The measure did not emancipate enslaved people and excluded many free people of color whose...