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Julien Raimond
Julien Raimond was an indigo planter of the French colony of Saint-Domingue, a free man of colour who became a leader in the Haitian Revolution and the formation of Haiti. A slaveholder with over 100 slaves by the 1780s, he moved to France in 1785 to campaign against the colony's racially discriminatory laws, and from 1789 pressed the National Assembly, working with Vincent Ogé, Henri Grégoire and the Society of the Friends of the Blacks. On 15 May 1791 the legislature gave wealthy free-born men of colour the vote, and white colonists' resistance led to civil war. Raimond later returned to Saint-Domingue, helped write the 1801 Constitution under Toussaint L'Ouverture and died soon after.
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