[PDF] A Particular Account Of The Insurrection Of The Negroes Of St Domingo Begun In August 1791 eBook

Author : Saint-Domingue Assemblee Generale
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 36 pages
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Release : 2017-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780260350145

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Excerpt from A Particular Account of the Insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo, Begun in August, 1791: Translated From the French M Roéert, a carpenter, employed on the fame plantation, was fei zed by the negroes, who bound him between five planks, and (awed him deliberately in two. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Particular Account of the Insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo, Begun in August, 1791: Translated From the French The deputies were gradually assembling there for the purposes of their mission. Several of them arriving on the 16th (August) at the district of Limbe, distant fix leagues from the Cape, were there witnesses of the burning of a trash-house on Chabaud's plantation. The incendiary was a negro-driver of Defgrieux's plantation. Armed with a cutlass, he fled; M. Chabaud saw, pursued, and overtook, him; they fought; the negro was wounded, taken, and put in irons. Being interrogated, he deposed, "that all the drivers, coachmen, "domestics, and confidential negroes, of the neighbouring plantations "and adjacent districts, had formed a plot to set fire to the plantations "and to murder all the whites." He marked out, as ring-leaders, several negroes of his master's plantation, four of Flaville's, (situated at Acul, three leagues from the Cape, ) and the negro Paul, driver on Blin's plantation at Limbe. The municipality of Limbe proceeded to M. Chabaud's; and, on putting the same questions, received the like answers from the incendiary negro. The municipality presented the examination, in form of a verbal process, to the Northern Provincial Assembly; and, informing Flaville's attorney (or manager) of the names of the conspirators that were about him, advised his securing and lodging them in the prison of the Cape. This man, of a mild and gentle disposition, inclined more to confidence than suspicion, assembled the negroes under his command, and, communicating the information he had received from the municipality, told them he could not give credit to a plot so attrocious, and offered them his head if they defined it. With one voice they answered, that the deposition of Defgrieux's driver was a detestable calumny, and swore an inviolable attachment to their manager. He had the weakness to believe them, and his credulity has been our ruin. The municipality of Limbe demanded from M. Planteau, attorney of Blin's plantation, that they might examine the negro Paul. This slave, being interrogated, replied, "That the accusation brought against "him was false and injurious; that, full of gratitude to his master, from "whom he was daily experiencing acts of kindness, he would never be "found concerned in plots that might be framed against the existence "of the whites and against their property." In return for this perfidious declaration, and under assurance from M. Planteau that Paul deferred credit, he was released. In this state matters continued till the 21st, when the public force of Limbe, at the requisition of the municipality, proceeded to Defgrieux's plantation, to take into custody the the negro cook, accused of being a ring-leader: the negro fled found out the negro Paul, of Blin's plantation, and, in conjunction with the other conspirators, they prepared fire and sword, destined for the completion of their horrible designs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.