To the right of the image is an extensive pencil inscription reproducing a dialogue between the master and the enslaved man (in Creole):
allowed foreign vessels arriving directly from the African coast to dock in the main port of each of the following French American places: Martinique
and students of textile production
they were unable to print an accent above the capital “E” and instead added an apostrophe (')
Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin
Qui abolit l’esclavage des nègres dans les colonies, Paris 1794. Americas To the right of theDeclaration of the first abolition of slavery in the modern world: the first edition France. National Convention (1792 1795). Dcret de la Convention Nationale, du 16. e jour de pluvise, an 2. e de la Rpublique Franaise, une & indivisible, qui abolit lesclavage des ngres dans les colonies. [colophon:] Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale excutive du Louvre, An IIe. de la Rpublique [1794]. 4. 2, [2 blank] pp. Printed to right of caption title: No. 2262.