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Black insurgents help defeat the counterrevolutionary attack on Cap-Français
📅 20 June 1793On 20 June 1793, sailors and white colonists aligned with Governor Galbaud attacked the civil commissioners at Cap-Français. The fighting set much of the city on fire. Facing defeat, commissioners...
Sonthonax proclaims emancipation in the northern province
📅 29 August 1793On 29 August 1793, civil commissioner Léger-Félicité Sonthonax proclaimed emancipation in the northern province of Saint-Domingue. The decree followed years of revolt and a military crisis in which...
Polverel extends emancipation to the West and South with plantation labor conditions
📅 21 September 1793On 21 September 1793, civil commissioner Étienne Polverel proclaimed emancipation in the western and southern provinces. The decree required newly freed people to continue working on plantations,...
Polverel regulates labor in the emancipated workshops
đź“… 31 October 1793On 31 October 1793, Polverel issued rules concerning the policing and discipline of emancipated plantation workshops. The ordinance demonstrates that official emancipation did not end attempts to...