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Book/Printed Material Account of a Conspiracy Organized by the Negroes in the Island of Saint-Domingue. Relation d'une conspiration tramée par les Negres, dans l'isle de S. Domingue

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Title

  • Account of a Conspiracy Organized by the Negroes in the Island of Saint-Domingue.

Other Title

  • Relation d'une conspiration tramée par les Negres, dans l'isle de S. Domingue

Summary

  • This short work consists of two letters relating to a planned slave uprising in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) in 1758. The context and importance of the letter are explained in an introductory paragraph by an anonymous editor: "Two letters were delivered to us. One is from Cap-Français, Island of Saint-Domingue, and one from the person to whom this letter was addressed. As this person knows perfectly well per se the current state of this island, we will give his letter first, to serve as an introduction to the next. The content of these letters is too important, in the present circumstances, not to give them to the public. As we shall see, the Negroes are seeking to take control of the country by causing death to the masters, only Jesuits are spared, and the latter openly protect the Negroes, by prohibiting those who are tortured unto death from revealing their perpetrators and accomplices. Does one not declare oneself an accomplice by denying the only way to eradicate this dreadful conspiracy?" The document is from Les imprimés à Saint-Domingue (Imprints from Saint-Domingue), a collection held by the Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Pères du Saint-Esprit that includes approximately 150 texts printed in Saint-Domingue before independence in 1804. The books were produced between 1764 and 1804 at presses in Cap-Français, Port-au-Prince, and Les Cayes and were digitized in 2006 with the support of the L'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1758.

Headings

  • -  Haiti
  • -  1758
  • -  Jesuits
  • -  Mackandal, François, 1715?-1758
  • -  Slave insurrections
  • -  Slavery

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 8 pages.
  • -  Original resource at: National Archives of Haiti.
  • -  Content in French.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666968

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  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Account of a Conspiracy Organized by the Negroes in the Island of Saint-Domingue. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1758] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666968/.

APA citation style:

(1758) Account of a Conspiracy Organized by the Negroes in the Island of Saint-Domingue. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666968/.

MLA citation style:

Account of a Conspiracy Organized by the Negroes in the Island of Saint-Domingue. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1758] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666968/>.