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1764

1764: Governor de Fénelon explains in a letter how social pressure from whites forced him to abandon his humanitarian views.

1764: Governor de Fénelon explains in a letter how social pressure from whites forced him to abandon his humanitarian views. This correspondence illustrates how the local enslavers successfully neutralized metropolitan officials who sought to limit their power.

Source  ·  p. 22 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 22