- Étienne
Polverel (1740–1795) was a
French lawyer, aristocrat, and revolutionary. He was a
member of the
Jacobin club. In 1792, he and Léger Félicité Sonthonax...
- His
official title was
Civil Commissioner. From
September 1792, he and
Polverel became the de
facto rulers of Saint-Domingue's non-slave po****tion. Because...
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citizenship to all free
coloureds and
sending two commissioners,
Sonthonax and
Polvérel, and 6,000
troops to Saint-Domingue to
enforce the decree. On
arrival in...
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enslaved persons commissioners Léger-Félicité
Sonthonax and Étienne
Polverel abolished slavery in the colony. Six
months later, the
National Convention...
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separately or in combination, the
French commissioners Sonthonax and Étienne
Polverel offered freedom to the
slaves who
would agree to
fight alongside them....
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During the
Estates General of 1789, the
Estates of
Navarre sent Étienne
Polverel to
Paris to
defend the
idiosyncrasy and
independence of
Navarre in the...
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actions of the
former governor of Saint-Domingue
Sonthonax and Étienne
Polverel, who
initially had
freed slaves in Haïti, but then
proposed arming them...
- Étienne
Polverel,
implemented rights for free men of
color that were
equal to
their white counterparts. On 5 May 1793
Sonthonax and
Polverel attacked...
- on the side of the
commissioners Sonthonax and
Polverel could be freed. Then, on 27
August 1793,
Polverel freed also, in the West province, the
slaves who...
- On 17
September 1792, the
commissars Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Étienne
Polverel and Jean-Antoine
Ailhaud landed in Cap-Français with 6,000 men from the...
