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28,000 free colored men and 30,000 whites at this point in time. An assembly in Paris is held and they vote to allow the colonial white men to determine the colony's political structure without colored people.
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Vincent Oge and Jean Chavannes, two white anti-slavery activists, are killed.
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Another assembly is held in Paris, and all free men of color with 2 free parents are allowed full rights. Whites are now considering seperation from France.
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Slaves begin major revolt, begin to boycott and violently protest against whites.
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Paris Assembly meets and revokes their May 15th decree to allow coloreds freedom
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Port-au-Prince burned in fighting between white radicals and free coloreds.
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Legislative Assembly ends racial discrimination in the colonies.
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Leclerc orders Toussaint's general, Jean-Jacques Dessalines to seize the rebel slave's weapons, but they failed. Black officers in the French military then resigned and turned against the French.
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Haitian Revolution leader Toussaint Louverture sends his army to eastern Haiti and assembles a whole-island commitee, making himself governor in chief for life. Napolean sends an army to Saint-Domingue, led by Charles Leclerc. Toussaint and his army fight
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France surrenders one third of the island to the Haitians and in 1804, Dessalines and his generals proclaim that Saint-Domingue is now an independent nation named Haiti. When Haiti finally signed a treaty with France in 1825, the major plantations were no
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The massacre of all remaining colonists begins, and the island returns to it's original Haitian ethnicity.