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1791

1791: White colonists in St.

1791: White colonists in St. Domingo began wearing the black cockade instead of the French tricolor as a sign of their deepening alienation from the mother country. Many openly expressed a desire for a British conquest to protect their property and lives from the slave insurrection.

Source  ·  p. x Edwards, Historical Survey, x