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Arrêt du Conseil d'État du Roi, qui permet aux Bâtimens étrangers arrivans directement des côtes d'Afrique, avec des cargaisons de cent quatre-vingts noirs, au moins, d'aborder dans le port principal de chacune des îles de la Martinique, la Guadeloupe, Sainte-Lucie & Tobago jusq'ua Août 1786
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- June 28, 1783 (Creation)
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"This decree authorized foreign vessels to transport African slaves for sale in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Lucia, and Tobago, to meet the needs of those islands which had been abandoned by French slave traders in favor of the colony of Saint-Dominique; funds raised by the decree, which imposed a payment of 100 livres per head, were to be paid as a bonus rewarding captains of French slave trading vessels who brought slaves to the islands." –description from James Cummins, bookseller