Jean-Baptiste Chavannes

This article is about the colonial-era rebel and abolitionist. For the modern agronomist, see Jean-Baptiste Chavannes (agronomist).

Jean-Baptiste Chavannes
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Chavannes by J. Verschueren
Bornc.1748 (1748)
Grande-Rivière-du-Nord, Saint-Domingue (later Haiti)
Died23 February 1791 (aged 42–43)
Cap-Français
Known forRebel soldier (Vincent Ogé's right hand), serving in the Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue regiment

Jean-Baptiste Chavannes (c. 1748 – 23 February 1791) was a Dominican Creole abolitionist, and rebel soldier. He was a leader in a failed uprising against French colonial rule in the colony of Saint-Domingue in 1790. He was executed by French authorities in 1791.

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