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1793-09-22

Polvérel proclaims general freedom of the enslaved

Haitian

On 22 September 1793, Polverel proclaimed the general liberty of the enslaved on the place d’armes.

Rouzier tells this under the entry PORT-AU PRINCE [le].

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 469 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 469