Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection

by Jeremy D. Popkin (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2008

  $23.74

  The successful slave uprising, the Haitian Revolution gave birth to first independent black republic of modern era. Numerous narratives of these events survive. This book unearths these documents and presents excerpts from more than a dozen accounts written by white colonists trying to come to grips with a world that had suddenly disintegrated.