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The Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,182
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The Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture (Paperback): Philippe R Girard

The Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture (Paperback)

Philippe R Girard

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In June 1802, the Haitian revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture was captured by special order of Napoleon Bonaparte and deported to mainland France, where he spent the remainder of his life in captivity in the prison of Fort de Joux. But Louverture, who had managed to rise from humble slave to governor of the richest of France's colonies, went down fighting. To defend his name and secure his release, he wrote a vivid account of his career. Historian Philippe Girard presents an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the memoir, based on an original copy in Louverture's hand. Girard's introductory essay, based on archival research in France and the Caribbean, retraces Louverture's career in Haiti and provides a detailed narrative of the last year of Louverture's life. Girard analyzes the significance of the memoirs from a historical, literary, and linguistic perspective. Louverture's writing provides a vivid alternative perspective to anonymous plantation records, quantitative analyses of slave trading ventures, and slave narratives mediated by white authors. Though Louverture kept a stoic facade and rarely expressed his innermost thoughts and fears in writing, his memoirs are unusually emotional. He questioned whether he was targeted because of the color of his skin, bringing racism, an issue that Louverture rarely addressed head on with his white interlocutors, to the fore. The full transcript of these memoirs in both Louverture's idiosyncratic French and English helps paint a powerful yet nuanced portrait of the Haitian Revolution's most famous son as a gifted leader, a passionate advocate of slave emancipation, a loving family man, a compromising politician, a tragic hero, and an evocative author and user of Kreyol, Haiti's national language.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2017
Authors: Philippe R Girard (Professor of Caribbean history)
Dimensions: 234 x 169 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-063635-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > European history > 1750 to 1900
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 0-19-063635-1
Barcode: 9780190636357

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