46. WILLIAM MOULTRIE (1730 - 1805) American Revolution major general who repulsed the British attack on Sullivan's Island, defended Charleston, and was captured and imprisoned by the British until 1782. Fine content manuscript L.S. "Will:m Moultrie" as Governor of South Carolina, 1p. 4to., [n.p.], Oct. 11, 1793 in which the American patriot defends a man of having aided Toussaint l'Ouverture's slave uprising on Haiti. He writes: "...Mr. Longchamp makes just now an Application to me, to request the Names of his Accusers of [his] having been at the Head of the Negroes at Port au Prince. I could not refuse him the request. You will be so kind, Sir, to send me the Names of those mentioned persons, that Mr. Longchamp may have an Opportunity to justify himself as the Laws admit...". Mounting strip on verso, else fine condition. In the aftermath of the storming of the Bastille in Paris on August 22, 1791, slaves in the northern region of the French colony of Haiti staged a revolt that began the Haitian Revolution. By August, 1793, following Toussaint's promise of military support against the Spanish and British, the French ordered that slavery be abolished in Haiti. Of course, Americans wanted to hear nothing of slave revolts or liberation, and Moultrie obviously wants to clear the name of his friend.$600-800