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Home > Haiti History > Haiti The Haitian Revolution - The Slave Rebellion Of 1791 > The Mulattoes, Rigaud, Petion, Vs The White Militiamen The Mulattoes, Rigaud, Petion, Vs The White Militiamen Even though it failed, the slave rebellion at Cap Français set in motion events that culminated in the Haitian Revolution.
Mulatto forces under the capable leadership of André Rigaud, Alexandre Pétion, and others clashed with white militiamen in the west and the south (where, once again, whites recruited black slaves to their cause).
Sympathy with the Republican cause in France inspired the mulattoes.
Sentiment in the National Assembly vacillated, but it finally favored the enfranchisement of gens de couleur and the enforcement of equal rights.
Whites, who had had little respect for royal governance in the past, now rallied behind the Bourbons and rejected the radical egalitarian notions of the French revolutionaries.
Commissioners from the French Republic, dispatched in 1792 to Saint-Domingue, pledged their limited support to the gens de couleur in the midst of an increasingly anarchic situation.
In various regions of the colony, black slaves rebelled against white colonists, mulattoes battled white levies, and black royalists opposed both whites and mulattoes.
Foreign interventionists found these unstable conditions irresistible; Spanish and British involvement in the unrest in Saint-Domingue opened yet another chapter in the revolution.
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