Emancipation: Its Course and Progress, From 1481 B. C. To 1875 A. D (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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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.

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