1789
1789: The Société des Amis des Noirs gains prominence in Paris, campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade.
1789: The Société des Amis des Noirs gains prominence in Paris, campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade. Their advocacy provided an intellectual platform for challenges to the colonial status quo.
Source
Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 10; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 28