Secret History; Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura

by Leonora Sansay and Lenora Sansay

Book Overview

Based on Leonora Sansay's eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti),

Secret History is a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay's writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and the post revolutionary United States, while fluidly combining qualities of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel, colonial travel writing, and political analysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551113465
• ISBN13: 9781551113463
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"