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 established a Jacobian Jacobin reign of terror in Haiti which destroyed white military power and alienated the colonial settlers. Although he didn't originally intend to free the slaves… (More on Sonthonax)