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1793-03-12

The citizens of Saint-Marc petitioned Sonthonax against the enrolment of some two hundred enslaved people by the men of color, which he had authorized…

Haitian

The citizens of Saint-Marc petitioned Sonthonax against the enrolment of some two hundred enslaved people by the men of color, which he had authorized; he ordered the enrolled enslaved people returned to their enslavers, and the municipality so decreed the same day.

Source  ·  p. 84 to 86 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. II) (1853), p. 84 to 86