DECREE of the Conseil du Port-au-Prince, which condemns a young négresse to be hanged by the armpits and to perpetual imprisonment, for having made an attempt on the life of her enslaver

LOUIS, etc; against the woman named Elizabeth, etc. OUR COURT has set and does set at naught the Appeal and Sentence appealed; in that by it the négresse Elizabeth called Zabeau was condemned only to be hanged by the armpits, and to be shut up in the Prisons for the rest of her days; amending as to this, condemns the said négresse Elizabeth, called Zabeau, to make amende honorable, naked in her shift, the rope at her neck, holding in her hands a burning torch weighing two pounds, before the principal Door of the Church of this Town, where she will be led by the Executioner of the High Justice, with a placard in front and behind bearing these words: Poisoning négresse, and there, on her knees, to declare that wickedly and to avenge herself for the punishments inflicted on her by her enslaver, she wished to make an attempt on his life by putting emetic at various times in different drinks for his use; of which she repents, and begs pardon of God, of Us and of Justice.