Proclamation
By: Les Commissaires délégués par la Convention nationale, aux citoyens des Îles du vent, actuellement aux Etats-Unis de l'Amérique
Contributors: Hugues, Victor; Lebas
Publisher: Imprimerie de la République
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Au Port-de la Liberté [i.e. Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe]
Language: fre
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; French; Broadsides; History
Notes: Caption title.

At head of caption title: Égalité. Liberté

Dated and signed following text: Au Port de la Liberté, le 25 fructidor, 3e. année républicaine [August 11, 1795]. Signé Victor Hugues et Lebas.

During the British occupation of Guadeloupe in 1793-1794, the British sent numbers of French settlers into exile to the United States. After the French retook the island in May of 1794, commissioners Victor Hugues and Lebas sought to return the emigrants, using this proclamation to bring them back.

Text printed in three parallel columns separated by double rule borders.

Engraved vignette head piece above caption title.

Rocquincourt, T. Bibliographie française sur la marine et les colonies 1789-1815, 1487.

Purchase; 2017; 18-367.