The Suisses

Consented to the deportation of the Suisses, the enslaved auxiliaries, marking the moral limit of free-colored strategy

The Suisses

Part of the broader South Province military mobilization of Black and free-colored fighters.

Connected to the complex free-colored and Black military politics of the revolution's early phase.

Part of the broader free-colored political mobilization that the Suisses and earlier concordats had catalyzed.

Part of the broader free-colored republican military network that emerged from the Suisses and concordat politics of the early 1790s.

Lambert appears in the controversy over the fate of the Suisses — the episode that exposed tensions inside the free-colored coalition's relationship to enslaved people.

Connected in Ardouin to the decision to consent to the deportation of the Suisses — enslaved fighters who had served the free-colored cause and were abandoned when their usefulness ended.

Connected in vault sources to the Suisses episode — the fate of enslaved auxiliaries whose abandonment revealed the limits of free-colored revolutionary commitments.

Connected to the Suisses crisis in the North Province political landscape.

The Suisses crisis and the burning were part of the same November 1791 West Province collapse

The Suisses