Étienne Guillaume Vincendon Dutour (175?-18?); Louis Nicolas Antoine de Bourcel (1754-?); Philippe Alexandre Edme Desrouaudières (1726-179?); Jean Baptiste Millet (17?-18?).

Decret de l'Assemblée générale de Saint-Domingue, rendu le 28 mai 1790, à l'unanimité, : et développement de ce décret, servant de réponse aux observations faites sur ce décret par l'assemblée provinciale du nord, en date du 1er juin.

[Paris(?), 1790].

8°. 61 pp.

Modern green marbled boards with brown morocco and gold-tooled title label on spine, speckled sides.

First edition, second state (of two) of a foundational political decree in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue (Haiti), issued unanimously by the colony’s General Assembly on 28 May 1790. In open defiance of metropolitan authority, the Assembly declared that no legislative act concerning internal governance could be considered law unless issued by the representatives of the French part of the colony itself. This assertion of local legislative sovereignty marked a key moment in the colony’s political rupture with France—an early signal of the constitutional conflicts that would soon escalate during the Haitian Revolution.
The publication includes the full decree text, followed by supporting arguments and official responses to criticisms from the Provincial Assembly of the island’s northern region.
This second state has the missigned "B4" on leaf C4 partially removed. Compare copy JCB.

Condition: in very good condition.

Reference:

Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haitienne, 5392.

Cundall 384.

Martin & Walter 16301.

Sabin 75096.