EVENT INFORMATION

6
Mei
1826

Boyer issues the Code Rural

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📅 6 Mei 1826 📍 Haiti

The Code Rural, issued at the National Palace on 6 May 1826, sought to bind cultivators to plantation production through contracts and rural policing. Later scholarship documents penalties for so-called vagrancy and unauthorized travel, and unpaid corvée road work. The code did not restore legal chattel slavery: cultivators were legally free people. It did, however, impose coercive controls on work and movement, partly to secure export revenues used to service the indemnity debt.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Jean-Pierre Boyer

rural cultivators

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Government of Haiti

rural police

local officials