Commissioner Étienne Polverel issued emancipation measures covering the colony’s western and southern provinces, completing the local abolition begun in the north. Proclamations differed in timing and terms, and freed people were still pressed to work on plantations. The end of legal chattel slavery did not immediately end coercion over labor or land.
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What was the significance of Polverel’s October 1793 measures?
Emancipation decrees ended all forms of coercion over plantation labor at once.
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Freed people continued to face compulsory labor rules and military discipline.