Request Presented to the Royal Estates-General, June 8, 1789, by the Deputies of the Isle of Saint-Domingue
While the Island of Saint-Domingue was long considered part of the French Empire, the ten Colonial Deputies of Saint-Domingue felt in 1789 that they had become separated from the colonial Metropole. On June 8th 1789, this request was presented in Paris before Louis XVI’s committee of the Estates General.