Lettre du Cap, du 18 juillet 1791
By: écrite par un créole blanc et propriétaire de St. Dominigue; sur les manoeuvres employées pour empêcher l'exécution du décret du 15 mai
Publisher: De l'imprimerie du Patriote françois, place du Théâtre Italien.
Published: 1791
Place of publication: Paris]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Politics and government; Freedmen; France; Legal status, laws; History
Notes: Caption title.

Name of printer from colophon.

Place of publication based on other works of the printer with this name and address.

This anonymous letter, is addressed to Abbe Grégoire. Henri Grégoire, most often referred to as Ab̌b Gřgoire, was a French Roman Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent abolitionist of human slavery and supporter of universal suffrage.

The decree referred to in the title ordered the formation of a new colonial assembly for Saint-Domingue and also decreed that people of color born to a freed father and a freed mother would have the right of citizenship and the right to vote.

Signatures: A⁸

Engraved head piece.

Bissainthe, M. Dictionnaire de bibliographie hätienne, 6648.

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 40677.

Purchase; 2016; 17-044.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in 19th century green marbled paper-covered boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.