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1671-05-10

DECREE of the Conseil of Martinique, against a cruel enslaver

Caribbean

Whereas it was represented by the Procureur-Général du Roi that he had been ordered by Monseigneur de Baas to inquire into the excesses committed by Charles Brocard against Anne, négresse, enslaved by the said Brocard, which sieur Procureur-Général presented the report of Maître Jean Chansolles, Surgeon; the Conseil having seen the opinion given to the said Seigneur de Baas, the report of Chansolles, and having heard the said Accused in person, and the conclusions of the said sieur Procureur-Général, the Conseil, for the said Brocard having inflicted, and caused to be inflicted, on the said négresse Anne many strokes of the whip, which gave her various grievous wounds on various parts of her body, and in addition for having had her private parts burned with a glowing brand, has sentenced and does sentence him to a fine of five hundred livres of sugar, to be applied as follows: three hundred livres to the Fabrique of the Church of Saint-Jacques du Carbet, and two hundred for the journey and report of the said Surgeon.

Source  ·  p. act 00:151 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 1) (1784-1790), p. act 00:151