Manuscrit d’un voyage de France à Saint Domingue
Author: anon.
Place of Publication: [France?]
Publisher:
Publication Date: [1816]
Physical Description: MS.
Description:
The anonymous author of this manuscript eyewitness account of the Haitian
Revolution claims to have been present continuously in Saint-Domingue from the
revolution’s beginnings in 1789 to its end in 1804, a feat that not many white
residents of the colony can claim to have matched. His parents dispatched the
author to Saint-Domingue after he refused to obey their wish that he become a
Capuchin friar. In Part II of his manuscript, dated 1816, the author writes that the
“troubles began in this unfortunate colony towards the end of September 1789”
with the importation of the French revolutionary symbol, the “cursed” red-whiteand-
blue cockade.
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