On 9 February 1822, Haitian president Jean-Pierre Boyer issued a proclamation announcing the union of the eastern departments of Cibao and Ozama with the Republic of Haiti. It stated that “on this land of liberty there are no longer slaves,” extending the Haitian constitutional ban on slavery across the island. This was a decisive abolition milestone for enslaved people in eastern Santo Domingo. The proclamation presents the union as consensual; Dominican and Haitian historiography also records uneven local responses, political disputes, and the limits of Boyer’s centralizing project.
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What did Boyer’s 9 February 1822 proclamation announce?
The proclamation announced unification and declared that slavery no longer existed on the island.
Boyer’s 9 February 1822 proclamation declared that slavery no longer existed on the island.
The text expressly extended the language of freedom to the unified island.