Description
- Notes:
- Caption title.
- Signed on p. 8: Lacour.
- The author, possibly a mulatto or free Black citizen of the French West Indies or Saint-Domingue, writes to powerful men such as Sonthonax and Etienne de Polverel, concerning the burning of the sugar plantations after 1793 and of the British occupations of some parts of the West Indies after 1794; he asserts the desire of the colonists to be in control of their own commerce and their own destinies.
- Signatures: [A].
Citation
"Encore un mot, un seul mot aux hommes d'état:
sur les Iles à sucre françaises
"
(1793).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:14370/
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