Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (7 March 1763 – 23 July 1813) was a French abolitionist and Jacobin before joining the Girondist party, which emerged in 1791...

revolutionary. He was a member of the Jacobin club. In 1792, he and Léger Félicité Sonthonax were sent to Saint-Domingue to suppress the slave revolt and to...

eradicated them, and joined the Republican revolutionary army. Léger-Félicité Sonthonax from September 1792 to 1795 was the de facto ruler of Saint-Domingue...

same cause. On the same day, the beleaguered French commissioner, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, proclaimed emancipation for all slaves in French Saint-Domingue...

Saint-Domingue on 19 September 1792 with the civil commissioners Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel as lieutenant-colonel in command of a detachment...

slaves. His projects were surpassed when France's Commissioner Léger-Félicité Sonthonax recognized the freedom of the rebels before Raimond's plans were...

from British and Spanish invasion forces. Republican delegate Léger-Félicité Sonthonax arrived in Saint-Domingue and he made an emancipation proclamation:...

000 French soldiers to the island. A new governor sent by Paris, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, abolished slavery in the Northern Province and had hostile relations...

confidence from the Spanish Government. In 1792, abolitionist Léger Félicité Sonthonax was sent to Saint-Domingue from France to maintain order. He was...

commissioners civilians sent to Saint-Domingue with their head Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, the friend of Jacques Pierre Brissot, the founder of the Society...

Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau January 2, 1793 - June 19, 1793 Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (commissioner) June 19, 1793 - October 1793 François-Thomas Galbaud...

become committed to its complete abolition. French commissioner, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, proclaimed emancipation for all slaves in French Saint-Domingue...

world speed record descending on a bicycle, both on snow and soil. Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (1763–1813), politician and abolitionist during the French Revolution...

slaves throughout the city. On 17 September 1792, the commissars Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Étienne Polverel and Jean-Antoine Ailhaud landed in Cap-Français...

National Assembly appointed a three-man Civil Commission, led by Léger Félicité Sonthonax, to travel to Saint-Domingue and ensure the enforcement of the...

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French Civil Commissioners in St. Domingue and abolitionists, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel, issued the first emancipation proclamation...

alliance with the gens de couleur and enslaved persons commissioners Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel abolished slavery in the colony. Six months...

occupying the area's two major cities, Léogâne and Jacmel. In 1792, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and two other national commissioners were sent to the colony by...

of Saint-Domingue In office 21 October 1792 – 2 January 1793 Preceded by Jean-Jacques d'Esparbes Succeeded by Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (commissioner)...

order to win its Black population to their side. In June 1793, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel decreed that all slaves who were willing to...

delegate 3 commissaries for Saint Domingue. Two of the commissaires, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel, implemented rights for free men of color...

division Étienne Maynaud de Bizefranc de Laveaux Éric Viellard as Léger-Félicité Sonthonax Magloire Delcros-Varaud as Mars Plaisir Féodor Atkine as général...

Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush. 1793 – The French troops led by Léger-Félicité Sonthonax defeat the slaves settlers in the Siege of Port-au-Prince. 1816...

was freed as a result of a 1793 emancipation decree issued by Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, the Civil Commissioner of Saint-Domingue during the French Revolution...

Revolution. Two years later in August 1793, French commissioner Léger-Félicité Sonthonax officially abolished slavery on Saint-Domingue as part of an effort...

ship "Leopard" to go to mainland France. September 25: article of Léger-Félicité Sonthonax for the abolition. October 12: the national assembly dissolves...

since the white settlers were hostile to the civil commissioners Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel. Some of the whites wanted the monarchy restored...

Saint-Domingue. They gave political rights to the gen de couleur, and sent Léger-Félicité Sonthonax to Saint-Domingue as its new governor; he was a man against slavery...

itself with the British, the Revolutionary French commissioners Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel declared general emancipation to reconcile...