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  <title>Au nom de la République française. Proclamation. Nous, Étienne Polverel et Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, commissaires civils de la République, délégués aux Iles françaises de l'Amérique sous le vent, pour y rétablir l'ordre et la tranquillité publique</title>
  <creator>Saint-Domingue. Commissaires nationaux-civils</creator>
  <creator>Polverel, Etienne, 1738-1794</creator>
  <creator>Sonthonax, Léger Félicité, 1763-1813</creator>
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  <description>1 sheet ([1] p.) ;|c45 x 36 cm. (fol.)
Caption title</description>
  <description>Imprint printed below rule at foot of page</description>
  <description>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</description>
  <description>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</description>
  <description>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</description>
  <description>Roquincourt, T. Marine et les colonies</description>
  <description>"Pour copie conforme à l'original. Polverel (?)" followed by indecipherable ms. notation beneath name of printer in column two; official seal of the Commissaires nationaux-civils of Saint-Domingue stamped underneath column two</description>
  <description>John Carter Brown Library copy has "No. 33" in ms. hand in upper left hand corner</description>
  <description>John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund</description>
  <date>1793</date>
  <year>1793</year>
  <subject>Marriage law</subject>
  <subject>Slaves</subject>
  <subject>Women slaves</subject>
  <subject>Child slaves</subject>
  <subject>Blacks</subject>
  <subject>Broadsides, etc</subject>
  <subject>Imprint 1793</subject>
  <publicdate>2010-08-05 18:43:37</publicdate>
  <addeddate>2010-08-05 18:43:31</addeddate>
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  <updater>xephyr</updater>
  <updatedate>2010-08-05 18:43:29</updatedate>
  <contributor>John Carter Brown Library</contributor>
  <publisher>Au Cap-Français : De l'imprimerie de la P. Roux et compagnie, rue Notre-Dame</publisher>
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  <repub_state>4</repub_state>
  <updatedate>2010-08-05 19:10:33</updatedate>
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  <notes>Signed &amp; sealed. </notes>
  <ppi>400</ppi>
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  <scandate>20100806161751</scandate>
  <imagecount>10</imagecount>
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