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1733

1733: Governor de Fayet states that the colony’s security depends on the military service of the mulatto affranchis.

1733: Governor de Fayet states that the colony’s security depends on the military service of the mulatto affranchis. He believed these men were uniquely capable of destroying the maroon communities in the mountainous interior.

Source  ·  p. 26 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 26