EVENT INFORMATION

23
Òktober
1791

Damiens peace treaty records a temporary alliance between white and free-colored forces

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📅 23 Òktober 1791 📍

A peace agreement between white citizens and citizens of color in the western province was marked at Damiens on 23 October 1791. It reflected the pressure free people of color had exerted against exclusion and the uneasy coalitions forming in the colony. The agreement concerned rights and security among free groups; it did not abolish slavery, and its terms did not erase divergent interests or the coercion imposed on enslaved people.

Inisiá sesion pa gusta òf marká e relato aki.
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Personanan den e suseso aki

free people of color

white residents and officials of the western province

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Municipal authorities of Port-au-Prince

citizens of color and white citizens of the western province