Leger felicite sonthonax biography of rory

          On one side were the two quasi- abolitionist commissioners of the island, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel—who had set out from.!

          LEGER FELICITE SONTHONAX

          by Robert Louis Stein
          Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
          Rutherford, 1985 ISBN # 0-8386-3218-1

          Leger Felicite Sonthonax, son of a prosperous French merchant, was a born-again Revolutionary.

          He rose in the ranks during the French Revolution and in 1792 was sent to Saint Domingue as part of the Second Civil Commission.

          Isolated and overwhelmed, the French commissioner in Saint-Domingue, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, abolished slavery in August The French National.

        1. Isolated and overwhelmed, the French commissioner in Saint-Domingue, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, abolished slavery in August The French National.
        2. Indeed, six months later, civil commissar Leger Felicite Sonthonax was forced.
        3. On one side were the two quasi- abolitionist commissioners of the island, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel—who had set out from.
        4. Leger Felicite Sonthonax: The Lost Sentinel of the.
        5. Rory Scanlon.

          6. This was a group of three men sent to oversee the interests of France in Saint Domingue. Sonthonax conceived the mission of the Commission as having two primary aims:

          • enforce the new French law of April 4, 1792 which gave full rights of French citizenship to free men of color
          • save Saint Domingue for France.

          These were two extraordinarily difficult tasks. The slaves had just revolted in the north and held most of the plain. It was feared that they would move toward independence. The whites of Saint Domingue were strongly resisting giving any rights to free men of color, and there was a great deal of discussion among the whites of