The National Assembly revoked the May 15 law granting rights to free-coloreds.

Evidence

On September 24 the National Assembly had proclaimed that whereas it and the king would have control over the “exterior regime” of the colonies, notably trade policies, the “laws concerning the state of unfree persons and the political status of men of color and free blacks” would be established by the local assembly. The law of May 15, which had incited such protest among the whites of Saint-Domingue, had been overturned by the very authority that had decreed it a few months before. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 423

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s wider picture of the colonial assemblies of Saint-Domingue seizing autonomy over racial status laws.