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1800-12-01

Toussaint Louverture issued an ordinance on passports for those wishing to go to France or abroad, which only he could grant…

Haitian

Toussaint Louverture issued an ordinance on passports for those wishing to go to France or abroad, which only he could grant, with fines of 4 and 6 thousand gourdes and confiscation of properties and vessels.

Source  ·  p. 280 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. IV) (1853), p. 280