late 1790s · Pre-Revolutionaryspan

Aquin sells plantation land in peasant-sized units before independence

One southern parish anticipated the post-independence settlement while the war was still on.

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1795 · Haitianyear only

Sugar exports fall to one and a fifth percent of what they had been in 1789

Coffee reached under three percent, cotton under one, indigo half of one.

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10 May 1795 · Caribbean

A man from the Loango coast helps lead a rising in Venezuela

Central Africans shipped through one port turned up in revolts on two sides of the Caribbean.

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12 March 1795 · Caribbean

Chatoyer writes to French planters in the language of liberty

Brotherhood in the first half of the proclamation, fire and sword in the second.

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25 March 1795 · Caribbean

A French general reports nine in ten of his soldiers are gone

Laveaux counted 990 men left from 10,288, and 262 officers from 952.

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June 1795 · Caribbeanmonth known

Three hundred Frenchmen take Saint Lucia by promising freedom

Outnumbered eight to one, the expedition announced abolition and won the island in the woods.

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1795 · Caribbeanyear only

Basel ends the war, exiles the Black generals and sells Santo Domingo3 sources

Spain abruptly quits, cedes its oldest colony to France, and abandons its Black Auxiliaries.

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1795 · Haitianyear only

Spain quits the war and exiles the first rebel leaders on a pension

About eight hundred black auxiliaries and their families were resettled in Central America, Florida and Cadiz.

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1795 · Caribbeanyear only

One year sets the record for slave risings across the Americas

Geggus counts 1795 as probably unmatched for the number of separate incidents in different societies.

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23 July 1795 · Haitian

The Convention makes Toussaint a brigadier general the day after Basel

Paris promotes the man it will spend the next seven years failing to control.

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4 August 1795 · Haitian

Boissy d'Anglas has to explain that article 15 was about slavery

The Directory's ban never uses the word, so a deputy is required to say what it bans.

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17 August 1795 · Caribbean

Fifty men refuse to work at De Knip and start an island revolution

A protest about the daily routine became a bid to free Curaçao within forty-eight hours.

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September 1795 · Caribbeanmonth known

Tula reasons from the Dutch defeat to his own freedom

He argued from French victory in Europe to his own liberty; the prosecutor answered with the rack.

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14 October 1795 · Pre-Revolutionary

A London radical praises the black rebels during Britain's war

John Thelwall dissents publicly at the height of Britain's military involvement in Saint-Domingue.

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