Whitehall Accord (1794)

The Whitehall Accord (French: Traité de Whitehall) signed on 19 February 1793 was an agreement between counter-revolutionary colonists from the French possessions of Saint-Domingue, Martinique and Guadeloupe with the Kingdom of Great Britain. The treaty allowed them to maintain ownership of their slaves, which had been abolished by the French government, while the British were allowed to occupy Guadeloupe to prevent the French Revolutionary forces from occupying the islands..[1]

It was signed by Henry Dundas for the British, and Frenchmen Pierre Victor Malouet (Saint-Domingue), Louis de Curt (Guadeloupe) Ignace-Joseph-Philippe de Perpigna and Louis-François Dubuc (Martinique).

Sources

Henry Lémery, Martinique, terre française, G.P. Maisonneuve, 1962, p. 32.

References

Geggus, David. “The British Government and the Saint Domingue Slave Revolt, 1791-1793.” The English Historical Review 96.379 (April, 1981), 285-305.

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[1] Geggus, David. “The British Government and the Saint Domingue Slave Revolt, 1791-1793.” The English Historical Review 96.379 (April, 1981), 285-305.