ABSTRACT
Julien Raimond was an indigo planter in what was then the French colony of Haiti. He was of mixed race, the son of a mixed race mother and white French father. He was himself a slave owner and one of the wealthiest free people of color in Haiti at the time. Around the time of the French Revolution, he traveled to Paris and argued that free people of color should have equal rights as white French people, and that those citizens who lived in the colonies should have equal rights with those who live in France. For a long time, colonies have faced a great question: whether free colored people will have the rights of active citizens in the colonies. The peace of 1749 brought to the islands a great number of white families, who soon adopted resentment and prejudice, which the old whites began to manifest against the people of color, and whose growing fortunes were only increasing.
