On 3 December 1792, civil commissioner Étienne Polverel issued an ordinance prohibiting designations of color in public acts. The rule challenged official racial categorization within colonial administration, but it did not dismantle slavery, plantation ownership, or racial hierarchy in everyday life. Read alongside the commissioners’ continuing regulation of the colony, it shows both the reach and limits of formal equality decrees.
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What did Polverel’s 3 December 1792 ordinance prohibit?
Polverel’s 3 December ordinance prohibited color labels in public acts.
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