1791 slave rebellion
The French revolutionary government granted citizenship and freedom to free people of color in May 1791, but white planters in Saint-Domingue refused to comply with this decision. This was the catalyst for the 1791 slave rebellion, a key event for the Haitian Revolution with which the new citizens demanded their granted rights. Background Arawak and Taino people inhabited for more than one thousand years what was later known as Hispaniola. Christopher Columbus arrived to the island on December 5, 1492. In 1659, half of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, became the French colony Saint-Domingue, during the time of the Atlantic slave trade Early attempts were made by slaves in order to recover their freedom, among them can be named the uprising in Saint-Domingue made by Padrejean in 1676, and the uprising of François Mackandal in 1757 France thought the Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1789, they began to see that slavery would need to be abolished. within two months isolated fighting broke out between the former slaves and the whites. This added to the tense climate between slaves and grands blancs. The revolt began on 22 August 1791, and ended in 1804. Declaration of the Rights of Man