Also known as: Dissolution of the Colonial Assembly - October 1792, Dissolution of the Colonial Assembly, October 12, 1792 dissolution
Last updated: April 26, 2026
On October 12, 1792, commissioners Sonthonax and Polverel dissolved the colonial assembly and three provincial assemblies including the councils of Saint-Marc and Jérémie, replacing them with a Commission Intermédiaire that included men of color for the first time. The act directly attacked the institutional base of white colonial sovereignty and attempted to impose on the ground the political equality granted by the April 4, 1792 decree. Figures such as Pierre Pinchinat now entered an official governing structure from which the old regime had excluded them.
The commissioners acted under the authority of the April 1792 law granting equality to free people of color
The combat was part of the same crisis that produced the October dissolution of the colonial assembly
The dissolution was the culmination of the crisis that began with Ogé's revolt
The council existed in tension with the colonial assembly until its dissolution in October 1792
The dissolution was a step in the political sequence leading to full abolition
Dissolution of the Colonial Assembly, October 1792
The colonial assembly had met at Cap-Français
The dissolution affected the colonial political institutions across Saint-Domingue
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