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Décret de la Convention nationale, du 16.e jour de pluviôse: an second de la Republique française, une et indivisible, qui abolit l'esclavage des Nègres dans les Colonies

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France. Convention nationale

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Original edition of the decree which freed blacks from slavery. Eight years later, Napoleon would resolve to re-enslave colonial Negroes and send an army to crush Tousaint L’Ouverture.
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Administrative Acts
Created Date:
1799
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Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition Collection

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library