Julien-Bernard de MAZADE-PERCIN (1750-1823) conventionnel (H - Lot 78

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Julien-Bernard de MAZADE-PERCIN (1750-1823) conventionnel (H - Lot 78
Julien-Bernard de MAZADE-PERCIN (1750-1823) conventionnel (Haute-Garonne). L.A.S., Rochefort March 8, 1793, to the citizens of the Colonial Committee; 3 pages in-fol. Interesting letter condemning some of the abolitionist measures of Commissioner Sonthonax [civil commissioner in Saint-Domingue, he promulgated the general abolition of slavery in the northern province of Saint-Domingue, several months before the Convention decided in Paris to abolish slavery in all the colonies on February 4, 1794]. As "Commissaire de la Convention chargé de l'inspection des côtes de l'Ouest," he reports having found upon arrival at Rochefort "several citizens of St. Domingue deported to France, by virtue of the orders of Commissaire Sonthonax. Among them was Citizen Larchevesque Thibault, former prosecutor of the Commune of Lago, followed to France by his wife. Wanting to know the reasons for these deportations, "I found only absolute orders". He emphasizes that the commissioners who order these deportations must "officially notify the motives to those who are the objects of these same orders. The regime of liberty founded on the laws must never be surrounded by the forms of an arbitrary and despotic power". He returns to the career of Larchevesque, who was elected Deputy of Saint-Domingue by the Constituent Assembly until 1789, then, back in Saint-Domingue, he became a member of the National Assembly of the North in Lago: "He was president of this assembly, was elected Councilor in the Superior Council that the Provincial Assembly reinstated in January 1790 and I became his colleague in this court as I had been in the Provincial Assembly. In March 1790, he was named by his fellow citizens as a deputy to the all too famous Colonial Assembly of St. Marc", before Mazade's return to France... He was also indignant about the non-application of the decree voted on the 24th of last year by this Colonial Committee, which he had applauded: "I have seen with sorrow that, not being very well informed about what is happening in the ports, you have not requested the general application of this decree to all the places where the deportees can be arrested. When they arrive in the ports, they are thrown into the so-called filthy and unhealthy detention centers, where they breathe a stinking air"... Etc.
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