Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (1763 – 1813) was a French Jacobin and abolitionist during the French Revolution who controlled the 7,000 French troops sent to Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution. He believed that Saint-Domingue's whites were royalists or separatists and therefore he attacked the military power of the white settlers and by doing so alienated the colonial settlers. Although he didn't originally intend to free the slaves, by October 1793 he was forced into e… (More on Sonthonax)