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1713-10-24

ORDINANCE of the King, concerning the Emancipation of the Enslaved

Haitian

HIS MAJESTY having, by his Ordinance of the month of March 1685 concerning the enslaved people of the islands of America, Article LV, ordered that enslavers might emancipate their enslaved people by any deed between living persons or by reason of death, without being required to give reason for the emancipation, and without needing the advice of relatives, even if they were Minors under 25 years; but experience having shown that since the enslaved people have been in greater number in the islands and the establishments there have considerably increased, several abuses have been and are now being committed through the greed of several Settlers who, with no other motives than those of their avarice, put the freedom of enslaved nègres at a price in money; which leads the latter to use the most illicit means to procure the sums necessary to obtain this freedom.

Registered at the Conseil du Cap, 2 January 1714.

And at that of Petit-Goave, 5 September 1735.

Source  ·  p. act 01:338 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 2) (1784-1790), p. act 01:338