Au nom de la République française. Proclamation
By: Nous, Étienne Polverel et 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 P. Roux et compagnie, rue Notre-Dame
Published: 1793
Place of publication: Au Cap-Français
Language: fre
Work titles: Proclamation (1793 July 11)
Notes: Caption title.

Imprint printed below rule at foot of page.

Dated and signed at foot of second column: Fait au Cap, le 11 juillet 1793, l'an 2 de la République française. Polverel, Sonthonax. Par les Commissaires civils de la République, Picquenard, sécretaire adjoint de la Commission civile.

Printed in two parallel columns after "Au nom de la République française" at head of title, a printer's rule, caption title and statement of responsibility; six woodcut floral printer's ornaments separate columns of text.

Proclamation granting freedom to enslaved women and children of newly emancipated slaves; fifteen articles describe the procedures by which slaves could be married, the laws which governed the status of women and children after marriage; also specifes the value of women and children of both sexes by age, according to which their masters were to be indemnified.

Roquincourt, T. Marine et les colonies, 2552.

"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 column two.

John Carter Brown Library copy has "No. 33" in ms. hand in upper left hand corner.

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