Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
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Verified for the 2027 exam•Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Definition
A wealthy Haitian-born man of mixed race who led an armed rebellion in 1790 to demand that the French National Assembly's decrees granting equality to free people of mixed race be implemented in the colony.