Many overseas possessions of France found themselves more and more alienated from the republican government following the revolution. However, it is not until the death in captivity of the King and the assumption to the vacant throne by the late king's brother that the colonists found a unifying factor. While their respective grievances were quite different (maintaining slavery for the Antilles, keeping the parish organisation in the northern Americas, etc ...), The new king promise of "Provincial Particularity" allowed him to convince those disgruntled provinces to come together against the Convention.