Haïti and Spain - A Memorial #270374

When the French Revolution had alike unsettled every thing in the Mother Country, and in the colonies, and conflicts ensued in St. Domingo for constitutional liberty, in which ex elusive interests struggled to maintain themselves amid disorder, — the controversy whether slaves were to continue bondmen, and proscribed freemen, to submit to be debarred the rights of freedom, — was brought to a close by the insurrectionary move ments of the colony, fomented by the Spanish government of.