An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections,
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Horrible massacresand conflagrations followed, the reports of which, when brought tothe mother country, were so terrible that the Assembly rescinded thedecree in favor of the people of color in the same year. In 1792, the news of this new decree reached St. Domingo, andproduced as much irritation among the people of color, as the news ofthe former had done among the whites; and hostilities were renewed onboth sides. As soon as these events became known in France, the ConventionalAssembly, which... had then succeeded the Legislature, seeing no hope ofreconciliation on either side, knew not what other course to takethan to do justice, whatever the consequences might be. They resolvedaccordingly, in the month of April, that the decree of 1791, whichhad been first made and reversed by the preceding Assembly, should bemade good; thus restoring to the people of color the privileges whichhad been voted to them; and they appointed Santhonax, Polverel, andanother to repair as Commissioners to St.
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