Saint-Marc assembly

An assembly of colonial plantation/affranchi representatives held in Saint-Marc, Saint-Domingue (Haiti) in 1790 during the Haitian Revolution, whose defiant actions against white colonial authority provoked a militarized white response and whose body adopted a motto later adopted by Haiti.

Claims that use this term

• The Saint-Marc assembly of 1790 coined a motto later adopted by Haiti
• The Saint-Marc assembly’s defiance provoked white militarized response within the colony.