[Saint Domingue]:

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L'ASSEMBLÉE GÉNÉRALE DE LA PARTIE FRANÇOISE DE SAINT-DOMINGUE AUX FRANÇOIS [caption title]. An important tract issued by Saint Domingue's General Assembly seeking aid and protection from its erstwhile rival, the National Assembly. Reflects the evolving disagreements among white inhabitants and the general state of affairs in Saint Domingue and states the island's situation is growing more desperate by the hour. By overpowering the local royal authorities at the very moment of defiance to Revolutionary France, the May Constitution pushed the General Assembly to the desperate situation found herein: giving lip service to the revolutionary cause in order to win the support of the National Assembly.

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