1787

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  • In 1787 the abolitionist Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (later renamed, the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (is founded in London. Thomas Clarkson, who would later play a role in the Haitian Revolution, was one of it's members.
  • In 1787 Saint-Domingue is at the height of it's production. (James)


See also

References

James, C.L.R. (1989). The Black Jacobins. Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. (2nd Ed., Revised) New York: Vintage Press. ISBN 0-679-72467-2.