Brissot’s patronage directed Sonthonax and Polverel to Saint-Domingue

Evidence

It was their encounter with the prominent abolitionist Jacques Brissot de Warville that set them on their road to Saint-Domingue. Brissot acted as a patron to both Sonthonax and Polverel in the Paris Jacobin Club, where the two men gained experience dealing with colonial matters. In 1791 Polverel led a move to expel several members of the Club Massiac from the Jacobin Club, asserting through his actions that there was no place for proslavery views in his revolution. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 488

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Shows the metropolitan political chain that eventually put emancipation commissioners in place.

Related

• Brissot’s patronage routed two radical lawyers toward governing Saint-Domingue. (similarity 0.95)
• Metropolitan abolitionists controlled colonial policy and appointed radical commissioners in 1792 (similarity 0.78)