SANTO DOMINGO. - First collection of Interesting Pieces, pre - Lot 609

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SANTO DOMINGO. - First collection of Interesting Pieces, pre - Lot 609
SANTO DOMINGO. - First collection of Interesting Pieces, presented by the Commissioners of the Colony of Santo Domingo, to Messrs. Notables, November 6, 1788. S.l.n.d. [1788]. Grand in-8, marbled basane, triple cold fillet, ornate spine, garnet title coin, untrimmed (Modern pastiche binding). Original edition, very rare. IMPORTANT COLLECTION CONCERNING THE DOLEANCES OF THE COLONS OF SAINT DOMINGUE on the occasion of the Second Assembly of the Notables summoned to Versailles in November and December 1788. This one includes the following 5 pieces, all in separate pagination: - Letter from the Commissioners of Notables... dated November 4th 1788 (7 pages). - Letter from the Commissioners to the King... of August 31, 1788 (8 pages). - Letter from the Commissioners to the Minister of the Navy... of September 3, 1788 (6 pages). - Second letter of the Commissioners to the King... of November 3, 1788 (6 pages). - Informative Memoir on the Regime & Importance of the Colony... of November 4, 1788 (47 pages). In the first letter addressed to the king, the commissioners of the colony insist on the importance of Santo Domingo for the kingdom of France, evoking its prosperity acquired in two centuries, in particular thanks to slavery, whose misfortunes they deny: ...we have preserved... our heads to order the works, & we have been looking for a whole People of acclimatized inhabitants in Africa: we have them to enrich the Metropolis & our Sovereign, & for the price of a job, a tribute which the poor pay to the rich, we treat them by humanity & out of interest, like our Children, despite the erroneous assertions of some innovative Philosophers (p. 5). The Instructive Memoir..., a strong plea for the maintenance of the colony of Santo Domingo, ends with a Plan of a Convocation of the owner-planters of the colony to elect their deputies to the States-General. COPY
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