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Excerpt from The History, Civil and Commercial of the British West Indies, Vol. 3 of 5 In the month of September when I was at Spanish Town in Jamaica, two French Gentle men were introduced to me, who were just arrived from St. Domingo, with information that the ne gro slaves belonging to the French part of that island, to the number, as was believed, of and upwards, had revolted, and were spreading death and desolation over the whole of the north ern province They reported that the governor general, considering the situation of the colony as a common cause among the white inhabitants of all nations in the West Indies, had dispatched commissioners to the neighbouring islands, as well as to the States of North America, to request im mediate assistance of troops, arms, ammuni tinn. And provisions; and that themselves were. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.