SAINT-DOMINGUE. 2 L.A.S., January-April 1803; 3 pages large - Lot 602

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SAINT-DOMINGUE. 2 L.A.S., January-April 1803; 3 pages large - Lot 602
SAINT-DOMINGUE. 2 L.A.S., January-April 1803; 3 pages large in-fol. (missing), and 3 pages in-4. Very interesting accounts of Toussaint-Louverture and the slave revolt. Port-au-PrinceJanuary 1, 1803.BORIN summarizes to his brothers the contents of a letter to their brother Amand concerning properties on the island: "all the buildings where my brother resides were burned by the brigants all the titles were the prey of the flames... M. Corpron, agent, promised to send an expedition of these deeds, "but the troubles that have arisen as a result of the uprising of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the negroes have prevented Mr. Corpron, who was assassinated, as well as his nephew, from having his house looted and set on fire, so that you did not receive them"... Assassinations and fires also at the home of the principal surveyor... Republican Port April 30, 1803. BESSAIGNET assures that nothing will change as long as one will not have received "imposing forces to chase the revolts of our plains and to delogate them from our mountains"... He was "under the illusion that the negroes had been intent on the first insurrection in the north on August 23, 1791," when he was a member of the colonial assembly in the Cape and heard all the rebels declare their intention to massacre the free men, burn the towns and plains, destroy the coffee plantations and "make St. Domingue another Guinea... The Negroes chased the mulattoes who sought to subjugate them, resulting in two parties under Toussaint and Rigaud... "Toussaint, a very extraordinary man in his own right, having analyzed Machiavelli in the smallest folds of the human heart, took such an ascendancy over his adversary that his pride held him in a state of continual intoxication, that he was caught in his own net, forced to abandon the battlefield and to withdraw shamefully to France, where he believed he would find a faction powerful enough to provide him with the means to return here with forces capable of overpowering the other and finally becoming absolute master of this colony. Details on the evolution of the situation until the arrival of General Leclerc; the colonists place their hope in General in Chief ROCHAMBEAU: "as soon as he receives troops, [...] our fate will change"...
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