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Réglement concernant les gens de couleur libres: Extrait des registres du Conseil superieur du Port-au-Prince

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Notes:
Caption title.
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Signed and dated on p. 4: le 16 juillet 1773. Valliere & Montarcher.
Concerns the rules on how mulattoes, and other gens de couleur who were born free can take the last names of their fathers, and how freed slaves can take the names of their masters that gave them their freedom.
Signatures: [A]².
Engraved headpiece above caption title.

Citation

"Réglement concernant les gens de couleur libres: Extrait des registres du Conseil superieur du Port-au-Prince " (1773). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:16216/

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