Also known as: Guadeloupe
Last updated: April 26, 2026
Guadeloupe experienced the full revolutionary cycle - slavery abolished in 1794 by Victor Hugues, then violently restored in 1802 by General Richepance - making it a tragic parallel to Saint-Domingue's trajectory and a warning of what Napoleonic reconquest meant for black freedom.
Louis Delgrès led the resistance against Napoleon's reimposition of slavery in Guadeloupe.
Fought and was captured in Guadeloupe during the 1802 resistance; executed after appearing before the French tribunal on a stretcher with a broken leg.
Lived and died in Guadeloupe; her resistance and execution were part of the 1802 French reconquest that restored slavery to the island after the 1794 decree of abolition.
Arrived in Guadeloupe in 1794 and built a new republican military order that made the island a base for Caribbean emancipationist war — arming formerly enslaved people, expelling the British, and launching corsair attacks.
Guadeloupe benefited from the 1794 French abolition decree.
Guadeloupe's enslaved population rose in the wake of the Haitian Revolution.
1802 resistance
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