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{"value"=>"Letter from d'Augy, member of the Assemblée Générale de St. Marc (Western Province of St. Domingue), to the inhabitants of the Northern Province, Paris"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Concerned that the French National Assembly's Declaration of the Rights of Man would undermine the institution of slavery, French colonists Domingue sought greater autonomy from France. In this letter to the Colonial Assembly in Cap-Français, which had nominally granted the right to vote to free propertied mulattoes born of free mothers and fathers, d'Augy argued that they had in effect proclaimed \"to the African races, both enslaved and freed, that it is no longer the law, but the sole will of the colonists which, from now on, maintains one group in servitude and the other at the distance which, up to this day, has separated, and must forever separate the freed men and their masters\". A.L.S.</p>"}
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