Boquet, “Pillage du Cap Français en 1793,” (Paris [?], 1795) Source: John Carter Brown Archive of Early American Images, Brown University. Click here for high-resolution original.
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Pillage du Cap Français en 1793
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Veüe et perspective du Cap François. Scituée dans l’isle de St. Domingue… avec toutes les observations et dangers de l’entrée de la baye (1717)
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Débarquement à Saint Domingue
Cornelis Gerritsz Decker (1620-1678), Débarquement à Saint Domingue (17e siècle, Le musée du quai Branly, Paris).
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Simón Bolívar, Venezuela and Haiti
But this is not all that the Haitians did for the sacred cause of Humanity: the breath of God was on them. When the immortal Bolívar, vanquished and a fugitive, after the failure of his first effort, was seeking a place of refuge as well as help, it was in Haiti that he found both. […]
Mademoiselle Desgots de Saint Domingue et son nègre Laurent
A prodigal luxury was, indeed, the most striking feature of life. “Everything at San Domingo,” writes Moreau de Saint-Méry, “takes on a character of opulence which astonishes the European.” People dined “‘á la creole’ — that is to say, with profusion,” and their tables were served by such numbers of waiting-men as cut off the […]
Haiti: The Black Jacobins
CLR James’ The Black Jacobins, first published in 1938, was a forbidden book in South Africa until the recent dismantling of apartheid. It’s not hard to see why. Scott McLemmee, “CLR James: A Biographical Introduction,” American Visions (April/May 1996) First of all, James cast doubt on the assumption that the revolution would take place first […]
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Haiti: A Particular Account of the Insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo, Begun in August, 1791
Long have we foreseen the evils which afflict us, and which, doubtless, will end in our annihilation… A Particular Account of the Insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo, Begun in August, 1791 (1792)
Haiti: Slavery
The stranger in San Domingo was awakened by the cracks of the whip, the stifled cries, and the heavy groans of the Negroes who saw the sun rise only to curse it for its renewal of their labours and their pains. CLR James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Santo Domingo Revolution (1938) This […]