1793-07-14
At Le Cap the commissioners celebrated the federation on the Champ-de-Mars, planting the tree of liberty for the first time beside an altar of the homeland…
Haitian
At Le Cap the commissioners celebrated the federation on the Champ-de-Mars, planting the tree of liberty for the first time beside an altar of the homeland; Polvérel took the oath, and Sonthonax, receiving the cap of liberty, urged the new citizens to work.
Source · p. 193, 205, 207, 209, 210
Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. II) (1853), p. 193, 205, 207, 209, 210