1788
From TLP
In 1788, a year before the French Revolution, the French lawyer Jacques (Jean) Pierre Brissot and Etienne Clavière found the Société des Amis des Noirs in Paris to extend to France the growing abolitionist movement that had swept into Europe.
Alexandre Pétion, the the Haitian affranchis, military officer and later President of the Republic of Haiti was sent to France in 1788 to study at the Military Academy in Paris.
