Author: Alfred Morrison
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Publisher: Mercator Stúdió
ISBN: 9633650143
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Author: Philippe R. Girard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199393524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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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 linguistic perspective. The book includes a full transcript, in the original French, of Louverture's handwritten memoirs. The English translation appears side by side with the original. The memoirs contain idiosyncrasies and stylistic variations of interest to linguists. Scholarly interest in the Haitian Revolution and the life of Toussaint Louverture has increased over the past decade. Louverture is arguably the most notable man of African descent in history, and the Haitian Revolution was the most radical of the three great revolutions of its time. Haiti's proud revolutionary past and its more recent upheavals indicate that interest in Haiti's history goes far beyond academia; many regard Louverture as a personal hero. Despite this interest, there is a lack of accessible primary sources on Toussaint Louverture. An edited translation of Louverture's memoirs makes his writings accessible to a larger public. Louverture's memoirs provide a vivid alternative perspective to anonymous plantation records, quantitative analyses of slave trading ventures, or slave narratives mediated by white authors. Louverture kept a stoic façade and rarely expressed his innermost thoughts and fears in writing, but his memoirs are unusually emotional. Louverture questioned whether he was targeted due to the color of his skin, bringing racism an issue that Louverture rarely addressed head on with his white interlocutors, to the fore.

Author: Toussaint Louverture
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199937222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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This is the memoir of a Haitian revolutionary written shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. It retraces Louverture's career as a slave, rebel, and governor. It provides an alternative perspective to anonymous plantation records, quantitative analyses of slave trading ventures, or slave narratives mediated by white authors.

Author: University of Western Ontario. Department of French
Publisher: Lexington, Ky. : French Forum
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Modern Language Association of America
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.

Author: Mignet (M., François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Joan Armburgh
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851156248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Newly-discovered family correspondence to stand alongside the Paston letters and Stonor papers.