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Black Jacobins talks about free, propertied Haitian blacks petitioning for political rights on the basis that "'Protestants, comedians, Jews, the relations of criminals’, all had received their political rights from the Assembly. Yet Mulattoes were still excluded." What does comedian mean here?

by /u/maximum_horkheimer in /r/AskHistorians

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