Free people of color allied with Paris abolitionists to radicalize citizenship demands

Evidence

Having received nothing concrete from the Club Massiac, Raimond and Ogé joined a group of free-colored activists called the Société des Colons Américains. The name was significant, emphasizing that the free people of color were American colonists, just as the whites were. They eventually allied themselves with the abolitionists of the Société des Amis des Noirs. Within a few months Brissot and Grégoire had joined this new battle over the meaning and universality of citizenship. The alliance gave new energy to the abolitionists and helped to radicalize the demands of the free-coloreds. The cahier des doléances presented to the National Assembly by the Société des Colons Américains demanded “equality for all nonwhites and freedom for mulatto slaves.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 281

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Free-colored activists radicalized by allying with the abolitionists; Free-colored activists radicalized French abolitionists into demanding all nonwhites’ equality; Free men of color petitioned using revolutionary new racial and citizenship language — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 522 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Free-colored activists radicalized by allying with the abolitionists; Free-colored activists radicalized French abolitionists into demanding all nonwhites’ equality; Free men of color petitioned using revolutionary new racial and citizenship language — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 522 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Free-colored activists radicalized by allying with the abolitionists #corroborates (0.97)