ST DOMINGUE. HAÏTI. Black Revolt: 7 Letters and 1 Diary: Cop - Lot 259

ST DOMINGUE. HAÏTI. Black Revolt: 7 Letters and 1 Diary: Copy of a letter written to Mr le Chevalier DAVANE by his procureur fondé du quartier MORIN Ile de St Domingue, dated October 30, 1780 + Letter signed F BREUIL, written from JÉRÉMIE (St Domingue) June 27, 1788, addressed to Mr De BESINS in Bagnères-de-Luchon: "I informed you, my Dear Carrigote by my last letter of the irreparable loss I have made of my poor and very eldest wife, 4 months pregnant. This separation has put the last nail in my coffin. I still have my two children, who were ready to embark... their departure is delayed, as I told you, until next spring. I have just had a horse chur-te... I am not at all well..." + 2 Letters addressed to Mr SAREMEJANE Capitaine de Navire à St Antonin: The first from PETIT-GOAVE (Haiti) May 25, 1783, "Monsieur You have no doubt learned of the death of the late MONTAGNE your brother-in-law. He left 40 to 50 thousand livres in debts and may, according to what I am assured, have a fortune of 70 to 80 thousand livres in property consisting of a Caféière with 18 to 20 negroes and a house in town..." and the second from BORDEAU of June 16, 1785, same subject and 2 other letters from Montpellier in 1785, concerning Sieur MONTAGNE who died in St Domingue. "Montpellier July 4, 1785. I intend to deal with them for a Habitation (Plantation) that the late MONTAGNE had in Saint Domingue where I intend to return." + Journal "COURIER FRANÇAIS, du Mardi 22 novembre 1791, Long passage on the Black revolt in st Domingue. "...The Negroes have been in revolt since August 22 last; they have burned part of the Cap plain; 200 Sugar factories and many Cafeterias are set on fire, wherever they find whites, they massacre them; more than 200 have already died. We have three small armies in the countryside... They are often butchered; but they are easily recruited..." + HAÎTI, August 1791. On the Mulatto Revolt. Addressed to Mr. FOACHE, Négociant in Le Havre; "... Our army has just returned and left 50 men at the Grande Rivière to consolidate the Peace. The citizens wanted to give gratuities to the soldiers, but the Colonel objected. He demanded that his regiment be given back the Canons de Campagne that had been taken away from it when it took up arms. The mulattoes in Verettes are said to number 4,000 (this number is exaggerated). M. Mauduit went to St Marc with 250 men of his Port-au-Prince Regiment... 100 Volunteers from St Marc went to Les Verettes... Port-au-Prince is quiet for the Mulattoes... Les Cayes is quiet, and was only informed of the insurrection of our Mulattoes by one of our letters... War, according to you, will not take place, so much the better, we have it and we fear it... Food is scarce in town, spices even more so than the Negroes do not sell... A coaster arrived (it is said) at St-Marc de la Jamaïque, reports that this island received 6 Vessels and 10,000 troops when it landed. God forbid that this should be true, for we shall be pitied..."