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Book SynopsisHere 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. Louver
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction ; Preface to the Transcript and English Translation ; Map of Place Names Mentioned in the Memoir ; Memoire du General Toussaint Louverture:Transcript ; Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture: English Translation ; Index
