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1776-06-25

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, concerning an Arab woman taken from her homeland and made an enslaved person

Haitian

AHYSSA, born on the banks of the Senegal, was carried off from there and taken to the Isle of Grenada, one of the Antilles, where she remained in the power of the sieur C…, a Frenchman, who had had a share in the abduction carried out by an English vessel.

Source  ·  p. act 05:631 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 05:631