Excerpt from Emancipation: Its Course and Progress, From 1481 B. C. To 1875 A. D Hayti - The liberation of slaves in this State was by commissioners appointed by the French government at Paris as Charge de afi'az'rs of the Island of St. Domin go. Their proclamation was ratified by the assembly and made valid in 1794, though the English were then in possession of the coast. In 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte, as first Consul of France and sanctioned by the legislature thereof, land ed an army at Samana for the purpose of re ...
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Excerpt from Emancipation: Its Course and Progress, From 1481 B. C. To 1875 A. D Hayti - The liberation of slaves in this State was by commissioners appointed by the French government at Paris as Charge de afi'az'rs of the Island of St. Domin go. Their proclamation was ratified by the assembly and made valid in 1794, though the English were then in possession of the coast. In 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte, as first Consul of France and sanctioned by the legislature thereof, land ed an army at Samana for the purpose of re-enslaving the Negro inhabitants of this State, but the heroism of the Freedmen defeated the army, and to this day they remain free. The French manumission decree abolishing Negro slavery in St. Domingo, Hayti, Cayenne, Guadaloupe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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