around 1791 to free themselves from the colonial yoke, the affranchies, who were considered inferior to all whites, and who by law had to submit to the arrogance and contempt ordinarily displayed by whites, quickly followed suit and the petit blancs' chants of 'liberty, equality and fraternity' became the chantsof the affranchis and of the slaves.With the coming of the black revolution, the rich absentee planters and all the others including the white colonists initiated a campaign to get representation in France. They created a Third Estate that accepted colonial representation, a new principle that bounded them to France. At this point in time, France embraced the proclamation that all men are created equal. The gens de couleur or men of color had their own movement demanding equality with whites and the whites in ways reminiscing of the whites in America and the activities of the FBI kept the men of color under strict surveillance and discrimination. Deputies of the white sent a report to the National Assembly of France giving all rights to all men, but failing to specify that the blacks were included in the people who could vote. Once approved by the French Assembly, the colonists issued decrees that made themselves only subject to the King and gave themselves the power to veto any decrees from the National Assembly of France that ran against their interests. It opened its ports for the importation of foods. This led to a confrontation between the people who were in military and administrative power before against the whites who had started the self government of the colonists. Blacks failed in France to get their rights recognized. Vincent Og, a martyr of the revolution, went to England and received monetary help. He then traveled to the United States where he bought arms and went back to St. Domingue. Upon a confrontation, the white arrested, tried, executed Og and his friends. "As a remainder of the written and unwrit...
