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1802-05-20

Law of 20 May 1802 restores slavery

Haitian

In 1797 Toussaint-Louverture brought the French colony to a perfect state of prosperity. In July 1801 he had a constitution promulgated for the government of the colony. The first consul believed he saw in this act the intention of making the colony independent. To secure his power he sent, in 1802, a formidable army, commanded by Captain-General Leclerc, his brother-in-law. Hardened by earlier struggles, the indigène army offered the most heroic resistance to the French forces. Nevertheless Toussaint-Louverture had to yield to numbers: he was deported to France. A great many indigènes were drowned and tortured, and slavery was restored by the law of 20 May 1802. The indigènes took up their arms again and the revolt became general. Yellow fever broke out in the ranks of the French, whose forces, reduced to feeble remnants, entrenched themselves at the Cap-haïtien.

Rouzier tells this under the entry HAÏTI: the general article.

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 93 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. II) (1892), p. t. II, p. 93