Detail View: JCB Book Collection: A particular account of the commencement and progress of the insurrection of the Negroes in St. Domingo, : which began in August last. Being a translation of the speech made to the National assembly, the 3d of November, 1791, by the deputies from the general assembly of the French part of St. Domingo. Printed by order of the National assembly

Title: 
A particular account of the commencement and progress of the insurrection of the Negroes in St. Domingo, : which began in August last. Being a translation of the speech made to the National assembly, the 3d of November, 1791, by the deputies from the general assembly of the French part of St. Domingo. Printed by order of the National assembly
Date: 
1791
Publisher: 
[S.l.] : Printed by order of the National Assembly
Book Collection: 
Haiti
Language: 
English
Call Number: 
b3904642
Digitizing Sponsor: 
John Carter Brown Library
Book Contributor: 
John Carter Brown Library
Identifier: 
particularaccoun8449sain
Added Date: 
2010-04-21 18:56:47
Identifier Url: 
http://www.archive.org/details/particularaccoun8449sain
Image Count: 
44
PPI: 
500
Operator: 
xephyr@archive.org
OCR: 
ABBYY FineReader 8.0
Camera: 
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Author: 
France. Assemblée nationale législative (1791-1792)
Author: 
Saint-Domingue. Assemblée générale. Commissaires
Author: 
Millet, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste)
Author: 
West India Planters and Merchants (London, England)
Subject: 
Slave insurrections
Subject: 
Slavery
Description: 
Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne
Description: 
Sabin
Description: 
Goldsmiths' Lib. cat
Description: 
Signatures: A-D E²
Description: 
Cf. Ragatz, L.J. Brit. Caribbean history, p. 446
Description: 
Ragatz suggests that the publisher was an organization known as the West India Planters and Merchants
Description: 
36 p. ;|c21 cm. (8vo) Bissainthe gives place of publication as [Paris?]; ESTC gives place of publication as [Port-au-Prince]; other English editions probably printed in London, 1791 and 1792
Description: 
Translation of: Discours fait à l'Assemblée nationale, le 3 novembre, 1791, first printed Paris, 1791
Description: 
Some successive editions have title: A particular account of the insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo
Description: 
Chronicles, in detail, the many bloody instances of destruction, killings and burnings of plantations and their planters by the slaves during their revolts in 1791. The Commissaires appeal to the Assemblée nationale and France for their help to re-establish the rule of law in Satint-Domingue
Description: 
Signed on p. 33: J.B. Millet and 6 others