1848-Apr.
1848-Apr.: Soulouque asserts his independent authority by initiating a vigorous purge of his mulatto political opponents.
1848-Apr.: Soulouque asserts his independent authority by initiating a vigorous purge of his mulatto political opponents. This action signaled the end of the politique de doublure where mulattoes ruled behind a black figurehead.
Source · p. 82
Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 82