Format:
Online-Ressource (194 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780199937226
Content:
Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture's hand never before published. Historian Philippe Girard begins with an introductory essay that retraces Louverture's career as a slave, rebel, and governor. Girard provides a detailed narrative of the last year of Louverture's life, and analyzes the significance of the memoirs and letters from a historical and
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; The Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; PREFACE TO THE TRANSCRIPT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION; Map of Place Names Mentioned in the Memoir; Original Transcript and English Translation; Memoire du General Toussaint Louverture: Transcript; Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture: English Translation; INDEX
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199937233
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199937226
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Memoir of Toussaint Louverture
Language:
English
Keywords:
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