Saint-Domingue’s 1790 democratization extended to all whites but excluded free people of color.

Evidence

It was a democratization based on racism: property-owning free people of color were again excluded from political participation. Indeed poor whites in the colony quickly came to exert much of their political energy and violence against wealthy free-coloreds. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 272

Categorization

• QUESTION: This ‘democratization based on racism’ frames the entire racial logic of the colonial revolution — worth tracing how this precarity of free people of color becomes the pivot that later forces them into alliance with insurgent slaves.