White settlers refused free-colored rights even when slave revolt threatened total ruin

Evidence

Having successfully held the free-coloreds at bay through violence in Saint-Domingue and lobbying in Paris, they were unwilling to relent, even in the dramatic situation that surrounded them. “One day,” Rouvray warned them, “the pitying laughs with which you greet the important truths I share with you will turn to tears of blood.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 403