Under pressure from the uprising and the struggle to retain the colony, Sonthonax proclaimed freedom for enslaved people in the northern province. The decree was a decisive local abolition, won in a context where insurgents had already broken plantation control across much of the region. Freedom remained constrained by military demands and labor rules.
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Sonthonax’s local proclamation freed enslaved people in the northern province.