Proclamation
By: nous Étienne Polverel & Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Commissaires civils de la République, délégués aux iles françaises de l'Amérique sous le vent pour y rétablir l'ordre et la tranquillité publique
Contributors: Polverel, Etienne, 1738-1794; Sonthonax, Léger Félicité, 1763-1813
Publisher: de l'imprimerie de la commission civile de la République
Published: 1793
Place of publication: Au Cap [i.e. Cap-Haïtien, Haiti]
Language: fre
Work titles: Proclamation (1793 July 25)
Notes: Caption title.

Imprint printed at foot of third column.

Dated and signed at foot of third- column: Fait au Cap, le 25 juillet 1793, l'an 2 de la République. Polverel, Sonthonax. Par les Commissaires civils de la République. Poittevin, sécretaire adjoint de la Commission.

Printed in three parallel columns after caption title and statement of responsibility; columns of text separated by printer's rules; engraved ornamental headpiece bearing the words "La République française" printed above caption title.

Proclamation offered all slaves in the southern province their freedom as of September 1792 as long as they served in the Republican army until the end of the war; in addition to this, it required that the freed slaves return to the fields and the workshops as soon as the war was over, with specific provisions to guarantee better treatment for those who were still tied to the land.

"Pour copie conforme à l'original. Polverel (?)" followed by indecipherable ms. notation beneath name of printer in column two; official seal of the Commissaires nationaux-civils of Saint-Domingue stamped underneath second column.

John Carter Brown Library copy has "No. 30" in ms. hand in upper left hand corner.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: torn, stained and mutilated at foot of column two with some loss of text and loss of stamp of official seal of the Commissaires nationaux-civils of Saint-Domingue.

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