SAINT-DOMINGUE. P.S. by Paul-Louis de CADUSCH,... - Lot 145 - Rossini

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SAINT-DOMINGUE. P.S. by Paul-Louis de CADUSCH,... - Lot 145 - Rossini
SAINT-DOMINGUE. P.S. by Paul-Louis de CADUSCH, president of the General Assembly of the French part of Santo Domingo, PONCIGNON vice-president, and 3 secretaries, Cap-Francais 13 September 1791; 1 page in-fol. printed. Rare open letter to the National Assembly on the slave revolt. "One hundred thousand Negroes are in revolt in the northern part of the country; more than two hundred sugar mills are burned: the masters are massacred, and if a few women are spared, their captivity is a state worse than death itself: already the Negroes have reached the mountains; iron and fire are going up with them [...]: on all sides, women, children, and old men who have escaped from the carnage, abandon their retreats, and seek on the ships the only asylum that is assured to them...
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