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From TLP

Title page to a 1743 copy of the Code Noir

It was also the year of birth for François Galbaud du Fort he was the French general sent to defend Saint-Domingue during the Sonthonax era. Galbaud owned property on the island and immediately sided with the plantation owners against the mulattos.