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In February of 1769, free men of color from Torbec parish, including ranchers, planters, and artisans, abducted their neighbor Jacques Boury, the light-skinned planter and former captain of the parish’s free colored militia. The kidnapping, which may have involved Boury’s two younger brothers, was a carefully gauged act of resistance against Saint-Domingue’s new governor, the Prince de Rohan-Montbazon. By kidnapping Boury, his neighbors communicated their rejection of Rohan-Montbazon’s militia reforms, which Torbec’s white creole planters claimed would bring all free men of all colors under a kind of “slavery.”
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Garrigus, J.D. (2006). Reform and Revolt after the Seven Years’ War. In: Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue. The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403984432_5
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