Ignace-Frédéric de Mirbeck
French Commissioner to Saint-Domingue
1732 CE to 1818 CE
Ignace-Frédéric de Mirbeck (1732 - 1818) is a French Commissioner who arrives in Saint-Domingue on November 29, 1791 in the months after the Boukman Rebellion. (Parkinson, p. 60)
He serves as Commissioner from November 29, 1791 to April 1, 1792.
Mirbeck had arrived in the colony together with Commissioners Roume de Saint-Laurent and Saint-Léger.
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Boukman's revolt is followed by a war of extermination characterized on both sides by unconscionable cruelties.
Le Cap is covered with scaffolds on which captured blacks are tortured, and there are many executions on the wheel.
Among the first to die is Boukman, captured during the first hours of the revolt.
During the first two months of the revolt, two thousand whites have been killed and one hundred eighty sugar plantations and nine hundred smaller operations (coffee, indigo, cotton) burnt, with twelve hundred families dispossessed.
Ten thousand rebel slaves are supposed to have been killed.
The first Civil Commission, consisting of Mirbeck, Roume, and Saint Léger, arrives at Le Cap on November 29 to represent the French revolutionary government.
Commissioner Frédéric de Mirbeck, despairing of the situation in Le Cap and fearing assassination, had embarked for France on March 30,.
His his fellow-commissioner Phillipe Roume had agreed to follow three days later, but receives news of a brewing royalist counterrevolution in Le Cap and decides to remain, hoping he can keep Blanchelande loyal to the Republic.
The commissioner Edmond de Saint Léger had arrived in Saint-Domingue on November 29, 1791, with Frédéric de Mirbeck and Roume.
With the Department of the West reduced to anarchy again, he and Mirbeck escape on a warship sailing to France on April 9, 1792.