[SAINT-DOMINGUE]
Lettre De Messieurs les Membres de l'Assemblée provinciale du Sud à MM. les Membres de celle du Nord.
NORTH & SOUTH MAKE AMENDS
A nice two-hander: an exchange of correspondence between members of the provincial assemblies of the South and North seeking to renew relations and co-operate together.
This seemingly innocuous exchange must be read in the context of the actions of their fellow assembly at Saint-Marc, which by 16 September (the date of the first letter), had published its own separatist constitution, been attacked by Loyalist troops, and on 7 August, seized the government ship Le Léopard and sailed for France.
It’s little wonder that these other assemblies felt the need to clarify matters between them. Of course, the Haitian Revolution was less than a year away.
Very rare: OCLC locates two copies at Brown and JCB only.
