Celles pour la traite des nègres, Foix 1793.

“No more bonuses to the slave trade”

France: Convention Nationale.

Décret de la Convention Nationale […], qui autorise le payement des primes & gratifications accordées au commerce, à l’exception de celles pour la traite des nègres.

Foix, chez le Citoyen Fontes, Imprimeur du Département de l’Ariège, l’an second de la République Françoise [1793].

4°. 2, [2 blank] pp. Typographic headpiece. To right of caption title: no. 1567.

Unrecorded provincial edition of a decree that abolishes the payment of bonuses and gratuities granted the slave trade: “No bonuses, incentives, or gratuities, even if due, for reasons related to the slave trade, may be paid under any pretext whatsoever.” France had long subsidised the trade in enslaved individuals in order to keep the plantation economy going, especially in Saint-Domingue (Haiti).

Condition: in very good condition.

Reference: BnF: Chartres edition; Hogg 962: Paris edition.