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  <identifier>proclamation10sain</identifier>
  <title>Proclamation  nous, Étienne Polverel &amp; Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, commissaires civils de la République, délégués aux iles françaises de l'Amérique sous le vent, pour y rétablir l'ordre &amp; 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.) ;|c53 x 42 cm. (fol.)
Caption title</description>
  <description>Name of printer from foot of third column</description>
  <description>Dated and signed at end of third column: Fait au Haut-du-Cap, le 2 juillet 1793, l'an 2 de la République. Polverel. Sonthonax. Par les Commissaires civils de la République, Picqenard, sécretaire adjoint de la Commission</description>
  <description>This proclamation fulfills the promise made by Polverel and Sonthonax in their "emancipation proclamation" of June 21 of freedom for the slaves who came to the defence of the Republic. It spells out the procedures and requirements whereby rebel slaves could secure their freedoms in return for future military service. In addition to the proclamation, it also describes the attack on Cap-Français by General Galbaud, who had now fled the island by sea</description>
  <description>Roquincourt, T. Marine et les colonies</description>
  <description>Printed in three parallel columns after caption title and statement of responsibility; engraved ornamental headpiece bearing the words "La République française" printed above caption title</description>
  <description>"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 beneath printer's rule between columns two and three</description>
  <description>John Carter Brown Library copy has "No. 13" in ms. hand in upper left hand corner</description>
  <description>John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: bottom lower left hand of sheet torn and wanting, with no loss of text</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>Galbaud-Dufort, François-Thomas, 1743-1802</subject>
  <subject>France. Armée</subject>
  <subject>Slaves</subject>
  <subject>Slaves</subject>
  <subject>Blacks</subject>
  <subject>Broadsides, etc</subject>
  <subject>Imprint 1793</subject>
  <publicdate>2010-08-17 14:21:43</publicdate>
  <addeddate>2010-08-17 14:21:34</addeddate>
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  <updater>xephyr</updater>
  <updatedate>2010-08-17 14:21:32</updatedate>
  <contributor>John Carter Brown Library</contributor>
  <publisher>[Cap-Français, i.e. Cap-Haïtien, Haiti] : De l'imprimerie de la commission civile de la République</publisher>
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  <repub_state>4</repub_state>
  <updatedate>2010-08-17 14:25:02</updatedate>
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