History of the Island of St. Domingo: From Its First Discovery by Columbus to the Present PeriodLondon: printed, 1824 - 266 pàgines |
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Abbé Raynal appointed arms arrived attack authority barbarous blacks British Cape François captain-general cazique character Christophe circumstances citizens Clerc coast Coisnon colonial assembly colonists colour command commenced commissioners conduct considerable considered constitution council cruelty cultivators death declared decree deliberative assembly Dessalines dispatched division Domingo dreadful employed enemies established Europe expedition fate favour force Fort Dauphin France French army French government frigate garrison general-in-chief Gonaives governor harbour Hayti Haytian honour hostilities hundred immediately invaders island Jamaica justice king land Le Clerc Leogane liberty Louverture March massacre means ment military month mulattoes negociation negro chief negroes Nicholas Mole obtained officers peace Petion Peynier plantation planters Port Paix Port-au-Prince possession prisoners proceeded proclamation regulations reinforcements retired retreat revolt Rochambeau sent sentiments ships slavery slaves soldiers soon Spaniards Spanish squadron submission success thousand tion tophe Toussaint Toussaint Louverture town troops unani white inhabitants
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Pàgina 10 - ... soon unloaded the ship of every thing that was upon deck, as the king gave us great assistance : he himself, with his brothers and relations, took all possible care that every thing should be properly done, both aboard and on shore. And, from time to time, he sent some of his relations weeping, to beg of me not to be dejected, for he would give me all that he had. I can assure your Highnesses...
Pàgina 258 - When they arrived at Brest, no time was lost in hurrying him on shore — on the deck only, was he permitted to have an interview with his wife and children, whom he was to meet no more in this life. The...
Pàgina 86 - Consternation and terror now took possession of every mind, ' and the screams of the women and children, running from door to ' door, heightened the horrors of the scene. All the citizens took up ' arms, and the General Assembly vested the Governor with the ' command of the National Guards, requesting him to give such ' orders as the urgency of the case seemed to demand.
Pàgina 72 - that it never was the intention of the assembly to comprehend the interior government of the colonies in the constitution which they had framed for the mother country, or to subject them to laws which were incompatible with their local establishments: they therefore authorize the inhabitants of each colony to signify to the national assembly their sentiments and wishes concerning that plan of interior legislation and commercial arrangement which would be most conducive to their prosperity.
Pàgina 89 - It was computed that within two months after the revolt first began, upwards of two thousand white persons, of all conditions, had been massacred ; that one hundred and eighty sugar plantations, and about nine hundred coffee, cotton and indigo settlements had been destroyed— the buildings...
Pàgina 67 - On the other hand, the whites never railed to procure prompt and speedy justice against the mulattoes. To mark more strongly the distinction between the two classes, the law declared that if a free man of colour presumed to strike a white person of whatever condition, his right hand should be cut off; while a white man, for a similar assault on a free mulatto, was dismissed on the payment of an insignificant fine.
Pàgina 124 - At a whistle a whole brigade would run three or four hundred yards, then separating, throw themselves flat on the ground, changing to their back or sides, keeping up a strong fire the whole of the time, till they were recalled ; then they would form again, in an instant, into their wonted regularity.
Pàgina 142 - A contrary conduct would be irreconcilable with the idea we have conceived of you. It would deprive you of your numerous claims to the gratitude and the good offices of the Republic, and would dig under your feet a precipice which, while it swallowed you up, would contribute to the misery of those brave blacks, whose courage we love, and whom we should be sorry to punish for rebellion.