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    <mods:title>Au nom de la République française. Proclamation</mods:title>
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    <mods:title>Proclamation (1793 July 11)</mods:title>
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    <mods:namePart>Saint-Domingue</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart>Commissaires nationaux-civils.</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:namePart>Polverel, Etienne</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="date">1738-1794</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:namePart>Sonthonax, Léger Félicité</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type="date">1763-1813</mods:namePart>
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      <mods:placeTerm type="text">Au Cap-Français</mods:placeTerm>
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    <mods:publisher>De l'imprimerie de la P. Roux et compagnie, rue Notre-Dame</mods:publisher>
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  <mods:note>Caption title.</mods:note>
  <mods:note>Imprint printed below rule at foot of page.</mods:note>
  <mods:note>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.</mods:note>
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  <mods:note>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.</mods:note>
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    <mods:topic>Enslaved persons</mods:topic>
    <mods:topic>Emancipation</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Women slaves</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Child slaves</mods:topic>
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    <mods:geographic>Haiti</mods:geographic>
    <mods:geographic>Cap-Haïtien</mods:geographic>
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    <mods:geographic>Haiti</mods:geographic>
    <mods:topic>History</mods:topic>
    <mods:temporal>Revolution, 1791-1804</mods:temporal>
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    <mods:geographic>Haiti</mods:geographic>
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    <mods:temporal>1791-1804</mods:temporal>
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