The Whitehall Accord (French: Traité de Whitehall) was agreed on 19 February 1793 by Henry Dundas and signed on 25 February 1793.[1] It was an agreement between the Kingdom of Great Britain and French counter-revolutionary colonists from the French possessions of Saint-Domingue, Martinique and Guadeloupe. The treaty allowed them to maintain ownership of their slaves and properties (slavery was later abolished by the French government on 4 February 1794), while the British were allowed to occupy Guadeloupe and Martinique to prevent the French Revolutionary forces from occupying the islands.[2] The postwar status of Saint Domingue was left open, while Martinique and Guadeloupe were to be returned to a restored French monarchy.
It was signed by Henry Dundas for the British, and French émigrés and monarchists Pierre Victor, baron Malouet (Saint-Domingue), Louis de Curt (Guadeloupe), Ignace-Joseph-Philippe de Perpigna and Louis-François Dubuc (Martinique).
Sources
edit- Henry Lémery, Martinique, terre française, G.P. Maisonneuve, 1962, p. 32.
References
edit- ^ Frostin Charles. L'intervention britannique à Saint-Domingue en 1793. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 49, n°176-177, troisième et quatrième trimestres 1962. pp. 293-365. DOI : https://doi.org/10.3406/outre.1962.1358
- ^ Geggus, David. “The British Government and the Saint Domingue Slave Revolt, 1791-1793.” The English Historical Review 96.379 (April, 1981), 285-305.