You'll remember that by 1791, France was at war with most of Europe. And just like with the Seven Years' War, the wars of revolutionary France played out in the colonies as well as at home. So the French government sent troops to San Domingo. Meanwhile, urges toward liberty, fraternity, and equality were only growing in France, and it didn't seem very equitable to grant citizenship based solely on race. So in May of 1791, the National Assembly gave full French citizenship to all free men of color, I mean, if they owned property and had enough money and weren't the children of slaves. The petite Blancs weren't thrilled about this, and that led to fighting breaking out between them and the newly French free people of color. And then in August of 1791, the slaves were like, um, hi, yes, screw all of you, and a massive slave revolt broke out.