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1777-08-09

DECLARATION of the King, concerning the Police of Black people

Haitian

LOUIS, etc. GREETING. By our Letters patent of 3 September last, we ordered that judgment be stayed in all causes or lawsuits concerning the status of Black people of both sexes, whom the Settlers of our Colonies have brought with them to France for their service; we are informed today that the number of Black people there has so multiplied through the ease of communication between America and France that this portion of men, the most necessary for the cultivation of the land, is daily being taken away from the Colonies, while their stay in the Towns of our Kingdom, above all in the Capital, causes the greatest disorders there; and, when they return to the Colonies, they carry there a spirit of independence and unruliness, and become there more harmful than useful. It has therefore seemed to us that it was in keeping with our wisdom to defer to the solicitations of the Settlers of our Colonies, by forbidding the entry into our Kingdom of all Black people.

Source  ·  p. act 05:711 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 5) (1784-1790), p. act 05:711