When, in February, Saint-Domingue planters in London had offered to hand over Saint-Domingue to the British, they proposed that propertied free people of color retain “the same rights as the whites.” … This initial proposition for equality was “whittled down,” however, and the articles of capitulation agreed upon in September by Saint-Domingue planter representatives and the British stipulated that free-coloreds would be given “all the rights given to this class in the English colonies.” This was a major step backward from the full equality they currently enjoyed.

Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ …, loc. 239