1789-Dec.: Colonial officials in Saint-Domingue held public auctions for three English-speaking captives who had escaped, including two men named Williams an…

1789-Dec.: Colonial officials in Saint-Domingue held public auctions for three English-speaking captives who had escaped, including two men named Williams and Joseph Phillips. A third individual, an “intriguing character” who called himself “Sans-Peur” (Without Fear), was auctioned in Cap Français. These notices underscore the presence of creolized dissidents from British territories within the French colony’s fugitive population. Enslavers expressed growing concern that such foreign-born rebels brought “mischievous or corrupt” ideas that threatened the stability of the plantation regime.