1790

In 1790 the Saint-Domingue affranchis planter Julien Raimond succeeded for the first time in making the issue of racial equality into the leading colonial question before the French National Assembly.

November

• In November Blanchelande becomes the Governor General of Saint-Domingue, he will remain in his post until 1792. He was excetuted in 1793 in Paris for his failure to stem the growing tide of the Haitian Revolution.
• On November 20 the mulatto rebel Vincent Ogé and 23 of his associates are captured in Hinche.