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1797-August-15

1797-August-15: French consul Victor Dupont protested in Charleston after city authorities forced General Martial Besse to post a bond under restrictive stat…

HT-DRUS-1941-000070

1797-August-15: French consul Victor Dupont protested in Charleston after city authorities forced General Martial Besse to post a bond under restrictive state laws. Besse was a high-ranking mulatto officer on an official mission who had previously fought for American independence at Savannah. The bond was eventually remitted, but the incident highlighted intense racial anxieties in the American South during the Haitian Revolution. It reflected the legal and social friction caused by the arrival of revolutionary black officials in slaveholding states. This event underscored the paradox of the U.S. maintaining diplomatic ties with a colony that had abolished slavery.

Source  ·  HT-DRUS-1941-000070 Logan, 50–51 / Bates: HT-DRUS-1941-000070, HT-DRUS-1941-000071