1791-Nov.: Paul Williams, an English-speaking native of Charleston, was among more than 200 enslaved men transported from Port-au-Prince to Honduras for sale

1791-Nov.: Paul Williams, an English-speaking native of Charleston, was among more than 200 enslaved men transported from Port-au-Prince to Honduras for sale. These individuals were deported by French authorities specifically because of their involvement in “insurrectionary activity” during the early stages of the revolution. The presence of a North American-born enslaved man in the heart of the Saint-Domingue uprising highlighted the interconnected nature of Atlantic resistance. His case illustrates how mobile individuals carried revolutionary experiences across vast geographical distances. This deportation attempted to quarantine the “contagion” of revolt by dispersing its participants to the colonial periphery.