[Saint Domingue]: Tausia-Bournos, M.:

$375 · Offered by William Reese Company

COUP-D'OEIL IMPARTIAL SUR LES DECRETS DE L'ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE, RELATIVEMENT AUX COLONIES [half title]. A letter addressed to the Colonial Committee regarding what the author sees as a contradiction between the National Assembly's famous Decree of March 8, 1790, and the instructions of March 28. A notable piece which proves that the ambiguity of the famous instructions in Article IV of the Decree concerned at least one inhabitant of San Domingo. The said article stated that "all persons, twenty-five years of age, owners of real estate or taxpayers, should be held qualified voters," thus igniting the mulatto population to demand just representation and setting the stage for the ensuing revolt.

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