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1670-10-20

DECREE of the Conseil of Martinique, against a private individual who was a bad husband and a cruel enslaver

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This Decree dismisses a Lieutenant of the Militias, because he abused his Wife and mutilated his nègres.

We thought we should cite this Decree, which shows how a Tribunal whose Members were themselves drawn from the Class of Militia Officers punished an enemy of public Morals

Source  ·  p. act 00:133 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 00:133