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1780

1780: Captain Vincent Ollivier, a 120-year-old black veteran and respected leader of the free colored community, dies in the colony.

1780: Captain Vincent Ollivier, a 120-year-old black veteran and respected leader of the free colored community, dies in the colony. His long life spanned the formative decades of the colonial era and served as a bridge to the revolutionary generation.

Source Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 73; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 25