Constitution française des colonies de Saint-Domingue, en soixante-dix-sept articles
Subtitle: Abolition de la loi du divorce, qui assure la prospérité des familles. La garantie des propriétés individuels des personnes et la liberté des nègres, des gens de couleurs, et de tous genres
By: présenté au premier consul de France, par le citoyen Toussaint-Louverture, général en chef et gouverneur des colonies françaises de Saint-Domingue
Contributors: Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803; Borgella, J. M. (Jérôme Maximilien), 1775-1844
Publisher: de chez l[a] veuve Leroux, no 20, rue de la Vielle-Bouclerie.
Published: 1801
Place of publication: Cap-Francais?]
Language: fre
Subjects: Politics and government; Constitutional law; History
Notes: Caption title.

Name of printer from colophon.

Dated on p. 8: Fait au Port-Républicain, le 19 floréal, an 9 de la République française une et indivisible [i.e. May 9, 1801 in the Georgian calendar]. Signé Borgella, président.

First edition of the constitution as drawn up by Toussaint-Louverture was printed in Cap-Français and printed by the widow Leroux around the year 1800. The caption title differs from this edition. Bissainthe suggests that the place of publication of this second edition is also Cap-Français, as indicated by the Port-Républicain place of signing on p. 8. The name of the printer may be false, as it indicates a printer's address in Paris [rue de la Vielle-Boucherie, as it should be, here printed as Bouclerie, indicated a more Creole interpretation]. Neither the first nor second edition of the constitutions as drawn up by Toussaint-Louverture were ever ratified.

Signatures: [A]⁴

Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne, 5195.

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