Catastrophic flood and colonial coercion: manuscript letter on the destruction of a Haitian sugar plantation.Procureur fond du quartier Morin. Copie dune lettre crite Monsieur le Chevalier Davane par son procureur fond du quartier Morin, le de Saint Domingue, le 30 octobre 1780. Morin district, Saint Domingue, 30 October 1780. 4, 4 pp, manuscript in ink on laid paper. Important plantation manuscript from colonial Saint Domingue, being a contemporary copy of a long letter written by the attorney of a sugar estate to the Chevalier Davane. The writer gives a