Esperanza Anido Calvo und Roberto Zaugg

Esperanza Anido Calvo and Roberto Zaugg are historians of the early modern period at the University of Vechta and the University of Zurich, respectively.

Basel and the freedom fighters of Saint-Domingue

Esperanza Anido Calvo und Roberto Zaugg 22.07.2025 The Peace of Basel, which was signed in 1795, had far-reaching consequences: for Basel’s City Chancellor Peter Ochs, for revolutionary France, and for events in America’s biggest slave revolution in the Caribbean.

Momentous decisions with consequences that went far beyond the borders of Europe were made at Holsteinerhof in Basel in 1795. Peter Ochs, the City Chancellor, was also involved.