1789
In 1789 "St. Domingo had attained a height of prosperity not surpassed in the history of European colonies. It supplied half Europe with sugar, coffee and cotton." H.E. Mills (Korngold, p. 12) 8,000 plantations were producing crops for export. (Geggus, p. 5)
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Summer
The summer of the year 1789 marks the start of the French Revolution. This revolution had an profound impact on the revolutionary events in Saint-Domingue, whose beginnings are usually dated to the meeting at Bois Caïman, the event that started the Boukman Rebellion in 1791.
August
On August 26, 1789 the French National Constituent Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
October
One of the leaders of the Saint-Domingue mulattos, Julien Raimond and the French abolitionist and member of the Société des Amis des Noirs, Henri Grégoire meet.
References
- Geggus, David Patrick (2002). Haitian Revolutionary Studies (Blacks in the Diaspora). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34104-3.
- Korngold, Ralph (1944). Citizen Toussaint. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. LCCN 44007566.
