![]() ![]() ![]() Despite this interest, there is a lack of accessible primary sources on Toussaint Louverture. 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. 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. Scholarly interest in the Haitian Revolution and the life of Toussaint Louverture has increased over the past decade. The memoirs contain idiosyncrasies and stylistic variations of interest to linguists. The English translation appears side by side with the original. The book includes a full transcript, in the original French, of Louverture's handwritten memoirs. 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. Historian Philippe Girard begins with an introductory essay that retraces Louverture's career as a slave, rebel, and governor. ![]() ![]() The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture's hand never before published. 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. ![]()
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