Secrétariat d'Etat à la Marine. Correspondance à l'arrivée de Saint-Domingue
Item
Country
FR
Name of institution (English)
National Overseas Archives
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
fra
Contact information: postal address
29 Chemin du Moulin de Testa, 13090 Aix-en-Provence
Contact information: phone number
0033 442933850
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
anom.aix@culture.gouv.fr
Reference number
COL CC9
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Secretary of State of the Navy: Correspondence from Saint-Domingue
Title (official language of the state)
Secrétariat d'Etat à la Marine. Correspondance à l'arrivée de Saint-Domingue
Language of title
fra
Date(s)
1728/1850
Language(s)
fra
Extent
11.5 linear metres (104 storage units)
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
This collection is part of the Series C of the Colonial Archives and consists of the official correspondence received by the Secrétariat d'Etat à la Marine from Saint-Domingue. It is divided into three series — Principal Series, First Supplement, and Second Supplement — each one structured into three sections: Correspondence from governors and administrators; Administration, regulation and military affairs; and Saint-Domingue Affairs. The first section includes letters from different colonial officers to the Secrétariat d'Etat à la Marine, and it is divided according to the sender's office: Governors, Other administrators (civil commissioners, colonial prefects, etc.), Colonial bodies (provincial assemblies, municipalities, committees, etc.), and Army. The other two series are arranged thematically.
The documentation received from Saint-Domingue during the revolutionary period is very heterogeneous and includes, besides letters addressed to the minister and revolutionary committees, many printed documents, decrees, regulations, proclamations, local newspapers, correspondence sent to civil and military officers, minutes of provincial or municipal assemblies, logs of troop operations, reports of officers commanding warships stationed in or passing through Saint-Domingue, and numerous letters from individuals. This collection also contains documents relating to the French occupation of the Spanish part of Saint-Domingue and extends beyond the proclamation of Haitian independence. For the period 1804-1850, it contains files relating to the compensation of former French settlers and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the new Haitian state.
This collection includes correspondence regarding Isaac Sasportas' plot for an uprising in Jamaica in 1799 inspired by the Saint-Domingue rebellion (COL CC 9 A 21, COL CC 9 A 22, COL CC 9 B 1, and COL CC 9 B 17).
The documentation received from Saint-Domingue during the revolutionary period is very heterogeneous and includes, besides letters addressed to the minister and revolutionary committees, many printed documents, decrees, regulations, proclamations, local newspapers, correspondence sent to civil and military officers, minutes of provincial or municipal assemblies, logs of troop operations, reports of officers commanding warships stationed in or passing through Saint-Domingue, and numerous letters from individuals. This collection also contains documents relating to the French occupation of the Spanish part of Saint-Domingue and extends beyond the proclamation of Haitian independence. For the period 1804-1850, it contains files relating to the compensation of former French settlers and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the new Haitian state.
This collection includes correspondence regarding Isaac Sasportas' plot for an uprising in Jamaica in 1799 inspired by the Saint-Domingue rebellion (COL CC 9 A 21, COL CC 9 A 22, COL CC 9 B 1, and COL CC 9 B 17).
Administrative / Biographical history
The period from the 17th century to 1815 is usually referred to as the "premier empire colonial" (first colonial empire). France settled in Canada, the West Indies, French Guiana, the Regency of Algiers, Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Gorée, and Rufisque. In the Indian Ocean, it gained a foothold in Madagascar (Fort-Dauphin), in the Ile de France, and in the Ile Bourbon. In India, the French colonial empire established itself in Surat, in Pondicherry in 1673, and then in the whole Deccan peninsula. Its apogee was under the reign of Louis XV. The European wars affected the colonial empires. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 marked the first collapse of France, which lost Canada and all the settlements in Senegal except Gorée, and kept only five trading posts in India. However, France retained Martinique, Guadeloupe, the occupied part of Saint-Domingue and Saint Lucia, as well as French Guyana. The Napoleonic period saw the liquidation of the Colonial Empire. France recovered a few shreds of its former possessions under the Treaties of Paris (1814-15). It was not until 1830 that the French Empire took off again.
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System of arrangement
This collection is divided into several series and subseries. Records are tendentially arranged in chronological order.
Access, restrictions
The records are only available in microfilm format (216 MIOM).
Finding aids
Debant, Anne. "Correspondance à l’arrivée en provenance de Saint-Domingue : série principale et suppléments (1790-1850)". Typewritten catalogue available in the archive.
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Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2023
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