The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon : Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801–1804

Professor of Caribbean History Philippe R Girard
University of Alabama Press
 9780817317324
0-8173-1732-5

In this ambitious book, Girard employs the latest tools of the historians craft, multi-archival research in particular, and applies them to the climactic yet poorly understood last years of the Haitian.

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Revolution. Haiti lost most of its archives to neglect and theft, but a substantial number of documents survive in French, U.S., British, and Spanish collections, both public and private. In all, this book relies on contemporary military, commercial, and administrative sources drawn from nineteen archives and research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.