West Province Concordats 1791

The West Province concordats were the series of 1791 settlements between white authorities and the gens de couleur around Port-au-Prince: the Croix-des-Bouquets accord of September 7, the Port-au-Prince concordat of September 11 negotiated by Pierre Pinchinat, and the general concordat at Damiens on October 25, which made equality language more explicit. Military pressure after the Battle of Pernier pushed whites toward concessions, but the settlements were fragile: whites still feared armed Black auxiliaries, and the resulting compromise fed directly into the betrayal of the Suisses and the affair of November 21, 1791.