Beard, J. John Relly , Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title. John R. Beard, D. London Ingram, Cooke, and Co. The publisher's advertisements following p. All footnotes are inserted at the point of reference within paragraphs. Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line. All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
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Revolutionaries -- Haiti -- Biography. Generals -- Haiti -- Biography. Slavery -- Haiti -- History. Haiti -- History. Haiti -- History -- Revolution, THE life which is described in the following pages has both a permanent interest and a permanent value. A hope of affording some aid to the sacred cause of freedom, specially as involved in the extinction of slavery, and in the removal of prejudices on which servitude mainly depends, has induced the author to prepare the present work for the press.
The sources of information on this subject are found chiefly in the French language. To several of these the author acknowledges deep obligation. The tone taken on the subject of negro freedom in Hayti, by Page vi recent writers in two French reviews, is partial and unjust. Possibly this may be attributable to a mulatto pen. The blacks have no authors; their cause, consequently, has not yet been pleaded. In the authorities we possess on the subject, either French or mulatto interests, for the most part, predominate.
Description of Hayti--its name, mountains, rivers, climate, productions, and chief cities and towns. Columbus discovers Hayti--Under his successors the Spanish colony extirpates the natives--The Buccaneers lay in the West the basis of a French colony--its growth and prosperity.
