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1665-07-16

DECREE of the Conseil of Martinique, concerning the payment for nègres put to death

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This Decree is the oldest authority we know that orders the reimbursement of the price of nègres put to death to their enslavers. It is just that the safety which the death of a guilty person gives to all Society should not cost too dear a sacrifice to a single individual; moreover it is the means of inducing the enslavers to hand over to Justice their enslaved who are criminals.

Source  ·  p. act 00:78 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 00:78