1789-late
1789-late: Magistrate Ferrand de Beaudiere was brutally put to death by a mob in Petit Goave after drafting a memorial for mulatto rights.
1789-late: Magistrate Ferrand de Beaudiere was brutally put to death by a mob in Petit Goave after drafting a memorial for mulatto rights. The white inhabitants viewed his appeal for the national declaration of rights as a veiled summons for a general slave revolt.
Source · p. 23
Edwards, Historical Survey, 23