DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, against Enslaved People who Murdered their Enslaver

SEEN by the Court the extraordinary proceedings made and conducted by the Criminal Juge of Fort-Dauphin, etc. it was said by the Court that the judgment was wrong and the appeal rightly made by the persons named, etc. all enslaved people of the plantation of the late Poncet; amending, in view of the matters resulting from the trial, THE COURT sentences the man named Saintonge, nègre Commandeur, and the man named Boussole, nègre mill hand and coachman, to be broken alive; sentences the woman named Sannite, called Gogo, quarteronne, to be hanged and strangled until death follows, by the Executioner of the High Justice, on a gallows that will be erected for that purpose on the said public square of Fort-Dauphin.