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1801-07-16

Toussaint writes to Bonaparte to explain the constitution he has just enacted

Haitian

On 16 July 1801, two weeks after approving the constitution at Cap-Français, Toussaint Louverture wrote to Bonaparte about it. He had enacted a text that made him governor for life and left France’s sovereignty nominal, and he was now sending it to Paris for an approval he had not waited for.

Source Primary source: Toussaint Louverture Archive, Marxists Internet Archive