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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