A royal officer at Fort Dauphin in…
October 1789 CE
A royal officer at Fort Dauphin in Saint Domingue reports on October 14 on unrest among the slaves in his district, who are responding to news of the Revolution leaking in.
There follows an increase in nocturnal slave gatherings and in the activity of the slave-policing maréchaussée, (marshalcy), charged with hunting down renegades.