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1789-Aug.-26

1789-Aug.-26: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen creates a political crisis.

1789-Aug.-26: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen creates a political crisis. This foundational revolutionary document challenged the legal basis of slavery and the racial caste system in the colonies.

Source Ghachem, The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution, 255; Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 83; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 28