Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution

by Matthew J. Clavin

Book Overview

At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave Fran ois Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almost entirely of rebel slaves, defeated all of its rivals and restored peace to the embattled territory. The slave uprising that we now refer to as the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221842
• ISBN13: 9780812221848
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"