On the 9th of October 1847, the day slavery was abolished on Saint-Barth, some of the newly emancipated men wrote a letter to the island’s Governor James Haarlef HAASUM to thank him  » for the freedom purchased for us « .

This is a very touching document, one has difficulty to understand it could ever be written.

They were slaves, and are now free men, most of those twenty-two that signed the letter have descendants today, living here or elsewhere.

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