British occupation of Saint-Domingue reimposed racial discrimination that alienated free-coloreds
Evidence
Having accepted the British takeover on the condition that racial equality be maintained, once the occupation was under way they had seen a “regression to old norms” of discrimination among the French planters. The British, worried about the precedent that might otherwise be set for their own colonies, decided in mid-1793 to apply discriminatory British law in Saint-Domingue. Men of color were divested of positions in the police force and administration, and some were threatened with deportation by British officials suspicious of their loyalties. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 623
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- British fear of colonial precedent drove them to impose racial discrimination in occupied Saint-Domingue (similarity 0.91)
- Free people of color defected to Britain to keep slaves while preserving racial equality. (similarity 0.85)
- Saint-Domingue whites built a racist democratization that excluded free people of color (similarity 0.84)
- British capitulation stripped free people of color of their full racial equality (similarity 0.83)
- Saint-Domingue’s 1790 democratization extended to all whites but excluded free people of color. (similarity 0.82)
- Saint-Domingue’s racial hierarchy was internally contradictory and internally divided. (similarity 0.80)
- France reversed its May 15 concession to free people of color (similarity 0.79)
- The slave uprising in Saint-Domingue shifted the French revolution into granting racial equality (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- British capitulation stripped free people of color of their full racial equality
#corroborates(0.75) - Disease and cost devastated the British occupation of Saint-Domingue
#responds-to(0.60) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 751