HIS 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Gens De Couleur, Caspar David Friedrich, Saint-Domingue
14 Dec 2016
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Saint domingue 465,000 slaves, 30,000 whites, 28,000 gens de couleur. 1789: people of color (gens de couleur) petition for rights initially denied. Saint domingue slave uprising: resentment against french, took advantage of turmoil in france, boukman stage revolt 1791. 1792: equality for gens de couleur 1794: slavery abolished. Toussaint l"ouverture becomes lieutenant governor of saint-domingue. Wants military discipline former slaves keep working on plantations. There cannot exist any slave on this territory; servitude here is forever abolished. All men born here live and die free and french: 4. All men, no matter what their color, are eligible for all positions: 5. There exist no other distinction that those of virtues and talents, and no other superiority than that which the law gives in the exercise of a public function. The law is the same for all, no matter whom it punishes or whom it protects.
