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1800-01-04

Toussaint Louverture issued an ordinance forbidding the Vaudoux, all dances and nocturnal assemblies, with corporal punishment for offenders…

Haitian

Toussaint Louverture issued an ordinance forbidding the Vaudoux, all dances and nocturnal assemblies, with corporal punishment for offenders, at the height of the siege of Jacmel.

Source  ·  p. 154, 155 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. IV) (1853), p. 154, 155