Vida de J.J. Dessalines, gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo
Author: Dubroca, 1757-ca. 1835
Place of Publication: Mexico
Publisher: En la officina de D. Mariano de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, año de
Publication Date: 1806
Physical Description: [4], 10, 18, [2], 19-106 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Description:
The campaign to vilify Louverture acquired even greater ideological stakes with
the impending invasion of Saint-Domingue under the orders of Napoleon
Bonaparte in early 1802. According to an 1814 History of Toussaint Louverture by
M. D. Stephens, published in London, Bonaparte’s regime hired a writer named
Jean-Louis Dubroca (1757-1835) to lead the propaganda war against Louverture.
Here Dubroca villifies Dessalines in a book published in Mexico. Intended to
instigate counter-revolution, the crude illustrations emphasize the anarchy and
cruelty of the Haitian general. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who succeeded to
leadership of the war of independence following Louverture’s deportation to
France in the summer of 1802, quickly became a symbol for foreign observers of
the violence and authoritarianism of the Haitian Revolution.
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