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Proclamation [electronic resource] / Nous, Étienne Polverel & Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, commissaires civils que nation française voyé dans pays-ci, pour mettre l'ordre et la tranquillité tour par-tout

Corporate Author
Saint-Domingue. Commissaires nationaux-civils
Uniform Title
Proclamation (1793 July 11). Creole
Published
Au Cap-Français [i.e. Cap-Haïtien, Haiti] : De l'imprimerie de P. Catineau, au Carénage, près de la Commission intermediaire, 1793, l'an 2 de la République.
Physical Description
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 57 x 45 cm (folio)
Additional Creators
Polverel, Etienne, 1738-1794 and Sonthonax, Léger Félicité, 1763-1813
Online Version
  • archive.org , Free-to-read eBook from the Internet Archive

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Collection
John Carter Brown Library - Haiti Collection (Internet Archive)
Note
Caption title.
Imprint printed below rule at foot of page.
Dated and signed at foot of second column: Fait au Cap, le 11 juillet 1793, l'an 2 de la République française. Polverel. Sonthonax. Par les Commissaires civils de la République française. Picquenard, sécretaire adjoint de la Commission civile.
Printed in three parallel columns after caption title and statement of responsibility; engraved ornamental headpiece bearing the words "Au nom de la République" printed above caption title.
An exceedinly rare translation, printed mostly in Creole, of: Au nom de la République française. Proclamation nous, Étienne Polverel & Léger Félicité Sonthonax, commissaires civils de la République, délégués aux iles françaises de l'Amérique sous le vent, pour y rétablir l'ordre & la tranquillité publique, [Cap-Français, i.e. Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, 1793]
Proclamation granting freedom to enslaved women and children of newly emancipated slaves; fifteen articles describe the procedures by which slaves could be married, the laws which governed the status of women and children after marriage; also specifies the value of women and children of both sexes by age, according to which their masters were to be indemnified.
Cf. Roquincourt, T. Marine et les colonies, 2552.
"Pour copie conforme à l'original. Polverel (?)" followed by indecipherable ms. notation beneath name of printer in column three; official seal of the Commissaires nationaux-civils of Saint-Domingue stamped underneath column three.
John Carter Brown Library copy has "No. 27" in ms. hand in upper left hand corner.
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.
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