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1791-Oct.-15

1791-Oct.-15: News of the black uprising in Saint-Domingue arrived in New Orleans, prompting Spanish officials to immediately tighten security around the par…

HT-TCWI-2018-000239

1791-Oct.-15: News of the black uprising in Saint-Domingue arrived in New Orleans, prompting Spanish officials to immediately tighten security around the pardo militia. Authorities were particularly concerned about the influence of Pedro Bailly, a free colored militiaman who had publicly praised the revolutionaries at a local social gathering. The trial that followed revealed that many free people of color in Louisiana were closely following the events at Cap Français and viewed them as a blueprint for their own equality. This event demonstrated the rapid spread of revolutionary sentiment from the Caribbean to the Mississippi Valley. The legal proceedings against Bailly provided a rare window into the political consciousness of Louisiana’s free black population.

Source  ·  HT-TCWI-2018-000239  ·  p. 239 Scott, The Common Wind, 239 / Bates: HT-TCWI-2018-000239