, including Dumas, but conspiracy theories and suspicion about 'counterrevolutionary' designs shadowed the revolutionary years of the early 1790s. On 25 September 1793, only a week after the enactment of the Law of Suspects that gave the Committees of Public Safety and Public Security sweeping powers, Saint-Georges and ten other officers of his regiment were arrested. No formal charges were brought against them. They were simply arrested, but it is likely that they had been caught up in the ongoing reactions to the Haitian Revolution and debates about both the status of people of colour under the new political system and the abolition