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"Liberté de la nommée Jeanne Aline"

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

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"Liberté de la nommée Jeanne Aline"
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Haiti : miscellaneous collections

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1785-07-23
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc MG 119
Topics
Haiti -- History
manumission
Genres
Certificates
Notes
Content: Manumission certificate for Jeanne Aline. Notarized document setting free a sixteen year-old black girl, Jeanne, godchild and slave of Jean Spechbach and his wife Jeanne Achy, and ascribing to her the surname of Aline in keeping with a July 16, 1773 regulation against the use of French surnames by nonwhites. Born in 1715 in the Swiss village of Miécourt on the border with France, Spechbach owned a sugar plantation outside of Abricots, near Jérémie. He died in 1786.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
French
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16542740
MSS Unit ID: 20921
Other local Identifier: SCM00-23
Archives EAD ID: 1703586
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 0c909aa0-d97d-0137-22c3-35ae1ef5441e
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

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  • 1785: Created
  • 2020: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. ""Liberté de la nommée Jeanne Aline"" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1785. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bdf67c41-89b0-1bd4-e040-e00a18063ce5

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. ""Liberté de la nommée Jeanne Aline"" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bdf67c41-89b0-1bd4-e040-e00a18063ce5

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1785). "Liberté de la nommée Jeanne Aline" Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bdf67c41-89b0-1bd4-e040-e00a18063ce5

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"Liberté de la nommée Jeanne Aline"