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Reference code
Clarkson/Folder 6/Doc 159
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Title
Date(s)
- 29 November 1796 (Actually dated '9 Frimaire' = 29 November) (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
10p paper
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Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bought from R. Myers & Co., 1949
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Scope and content
Copy, sent to Thomas Clarkson, of letter, in French, from Toussaint Louverture, General of Division, Commander in Chief in the Department of the West, to Citizen Gregoire, Representative of the People and Bishop of the Department of the Loire, dated 9 Frimaire (29 November) 1796. Toussaint describes the lack of moral guidance for the people of St. Dominique in the wake of the conditions following breakdown of the colonial regime, and requests that priests be sent out to help to remedy the situation. 2p. Copies of four more letters in French from Toussaint to the Bishop on a similar theme as above, and the relations between St. Dominique and the Revolutionary Government in France, dated: 15 Prairal (3 June) 1798, 23 Brumaire (13 November) 1798, 3 Vindemaire (24 September) 1798, 16 Germinal (6 April) 1800.