Description
- Notes:
- 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, Picquenard, sécretaire adjoint de la Commission civile.
- Printed in two parallel columns after "Au nom de la République française" at head of title, a printer's rule, caption title and statement of responsibility; six woodcut floral printer's ornaments separate columns of text.
- 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 specifes the value of women and children of both sexes by age, according to which their masters were to be indemnified.
Citation
"Au nom de la République française. Proclamation"
(1793).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:13050/
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