- Léger-Félicité
Sonthonax (7
March 1763 – 23 July 1813) was a
French abolitionist and
Jacobin before joining the
Girondist party,
which emerged in 1791...
- own power.
Louverture worked together with
Sonthonax for a few years, but he
ultimately forced Sonthonax out of his
position in 1795, and
became the...
- for
Sonthonax's return to
France that summer.
Louverture had
several reasons to want to get rid of
Sonthonax;
officially he said that
Sonthonax had tried...
-
backlash from
France was
Sonthonax, who was
responsible for many
outlooks of
Haiti in the
French newspapers. Yet
Sonthonax was one of the few contenders...
- He was a
member of the
Jacobin club. In 1792, he and Léger Félicité
Sonthonax were sent to Saint-Domingue to
suppress the
slave revolt and to implement...
- the gens de
couleur and
enslaved persons commissioners Léger-Félicité
Sonthonax and Étienne
Polverel abolished slavery in the colony. Six
months later...
- 2015. Dorigny, Marcel, ed. (2003). The
Abolitions of Slavery: From L. F.
Sonthonax to
Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848. Paris:
UNESCO Publishing. p. vi...
- Saint-Domingue on 19
September 1792 with the
civil commissioners Léger-Félicité
Sonthonax and Étienne
Polverel as lieutenant-colonel in
command of a detachment...
-
granting citizenship to all free
coloureds and
sending two commissioners,
Sonthonax and Polvérel, and 6,000
troops to Saint-Domingue to
enforce the decree...
- with the British, the
Revolutionary French commissioners Léger-Félicité
Sonthonax and Étienne
Polverel declared general eman****tion to
reconcile them with...
