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1790-02-24

First armed gathering of men of color at Plassac

Haitian

Plassac was the site of the first assembly in arms of the people of color of the Artibonite and of the Verrettes against the French. This assembly took place on 24 February 1790. The bold malcontents invited the other citizens of their class to invite them, in order to win by force the equality of rights that had been so unjustly refused them; but this first assembly, which had not been concerted in advance with the other quartiers, was promptly dissolved.

Rouzier tells this under the entry PLASSAC.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 436 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 436