TY - BOOK AU - Rainsford,Marcus AU - Pierrot,Gregory AU - Youngquist,Paul ED - Project Muse. TI - An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti / SN - 9780822395560 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Duke University Press KW - Haiti KW - fast KW - History KW - Revolution, 1791-1804 KW - To 1791 KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Chronology --; Introduction --; A Note on the Text --; An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti --; ch. I; A Succinct historical View of the Colonies of Hispaniola and St. Domingo, from the Discovery of Hayti, by Columbus, to the Height of their Prosperity in 1789 --; ch. II; Origin of the Revolutionary Spirit of this Period in St. Domingo --; ch. III; Account of the Progress and Accomplishment of the Independence of St. Domingo --; ch. IV; State of Manners on the Independence of the Blacks in St. Domingo, with a Memoir of the Circumstances of the Author's Visit to the Island in 1799 --; ch. V; View of the Black Army, and of the War between the French Republic and the independent Blacks of St. Domingo --; ch. VI; On the Establishment of a Black Empire, and the probable Effects of the Colonial Revolution --; Appendix; Compromising Documents Referred to in Different Parts of the Work: Together with Auxiliary Remarks; Open Access N2 - A new edition of the earliest English-language account of the Haitian Revolution. Originally published in 1805, the narrative played a significant role in establishing nineteenth-century world opinion of that momentous event UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64087/ ER -