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1792, April 4 – September 18

1792, April 4 – September 18: (The Jacobin Decree and the Second Commission): On April 4, 1792, King Louis XVI gave royal assent to a Jacobin decree that gra…

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1792, April 4 – September 18: (The Jacobin Decree and the Second Commission): On April 4, 1792, King Louis XVI gave royal assent to a Jacobin decree that granted full and equal political rights to all gens de couleur and free noirs in Saint-Domingue. To enforce this, three new commissioners—Etienne Polvérel, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, and Ailhaud—landed at Cap Français on September 18, 1792, accompanied by 6,000 soldiers. While Polvérel was known as a man of principle and honesty, the younger Sonthonax was a ferocious Girondin lawyer prepared to use betrayal and the guillotine to achieve his goals. Sonthonax was deeply devoted to the abolition of slavery, famously writing in 1791 that the lands of the colony belonged to the Black people who earned them with their sweat.