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1796

1796: The Villatte affair occurs as free colored leaders attempt to overthrow Governor Laveaux in Le Cap.

1796: The Villatte affair occurs as free colored leaders attempt to overthrow Governor Laveaux in Le Cap. Toussaint’s intervention to rescue the governor consolidated his power over the revolutionary government.

Source Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 20; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 29