The Haitian People
A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 1989
- ISBN-13
- 9780679724674
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Haitian RevolutionSlavery and abolitionToussaint L'Ouverture
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(1942)
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