1784
1784: Prominent free coloreds secretly draft a report attacking the caste system and send a representative to France.
1784: Prominent free coloreds secretly draft a report attacking the caste system and send a representative to France. This political maneuver sought to secure legal equality by appealing directly to metropolitan authorities.
Source
Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 8; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 50