Pétition faite à l'Assemblée nationale
By: par MM. les Commissaires de l'Assemblée générale de la partie française de St.-Domingue, le 2 décembre 1791, et lue le 3.
Contributors: France. Assemblée nationale législative (1791-1792)
Publisher: De l'Imprimerie de P.F. Didot le jeune
Published: 1791
Place of publication: [Paris]
Language: fre
Notes: Name of printer from colophon.

Place and date of publication supplied by Bissainthe.

Following the burnings and revolts in Saint-Domingue there was a large massacre of one thousand white colonists, and destruction of two hundred sugar and twelve thousand coffee plantations in late November of 1791. The white and free planters of color found their livelihoods destroyed. This unsigned petition by the Commissaires of the Assemblée générale, a Saint-Domingue assembly, consisting mostly of white planters, many of whom had fled to Paris, petitions the Assemblée nationale législative in Paris to send help to the colony and reestablish order.

Signatures: A (A3 missigned A2)

Bissainthe. M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne, 7349.

John Carter Brown Library copy unbound and unsewn as issued.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Swan I, Swan II and Harper Funds.