Pompée-Valentin, Baron de Vastey (c.
1781–1820) was the most prominent intellectual and propagandist of henri-christophe's Kingdom of Haiti. He was born in Saint-Domingue as a free man of color (gens de couleur libre) — the caste of free people, predominantly mixed-race but including freeborn Black Haitians, whose intermediate legal status under the colonial system Vastey would later anatomize with cold precision. His dates are approximate: the extraction of Le Système colonial dévoilé record...
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