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1	The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution more books like this by Cyril Lionel Robert James add to wishlist In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. Only three years later, the British and Americans ended the ... see all copies from £6.58! new only from £8.42!
2	All Souls' Rising more books like this by Madison Smartt Bell add to wishlist A retelling of an episode of history--the rebellion of Haitian slaves against French plantation owners. Madison Smartt Bell employs a cast of carefully drawn characters, including the legendary Toussaint, a self-educated, second-generation African slave, who is determined to see an end to French rule but equally determined to resist the influences ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Lydia Bailey more books like this by Kenneth Roberts add to wishlist It is 1800, and Albion Hamlin's client has run afoul of the notorious Alien and Sedition Acts. Before he knows what has happened, Albion has lost his case and fallen in love -- with his client's niece, Lydia Bailey. Roberts skillfully blends history, romance, and adventure once again in this novel. see all copies from £1.87! new only from £29.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Kingdom of This World more books like this by Alejo Carpentier add to wishlist A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Toussaint Louverture: A Biography more books like this by Madison Smartt Bell add to wishlist In this fascinating biography, the first about Toussaint Louverture to appear in English in more than 50 years, Bell combines a novelist's passion for his subject with a deep knowledge of the historical milieu that produced the man known either as a martyr of the Haitian revolution or as the instigator of one of history's most savagely violent ... see all copies from £4.09! new only from £6.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	El Reino de Este Mundo by Alejo Carpentier add to wishlist "El reino de este mundo," novela pionera del realismo magico, explora los origenes de la independencia haitiana, en una America donde lo magico es cotidiano y real Inspirado por la extraordinaria historia original y valido de su admirable poder narrativo, Alejo Carpentier es artifice de un relato alucinante e incomparable que recrea los ... see all copies from £6.75! new only from £9.97! \| first editions
7	Master of the Crossroads more books like this by Madison Smartt Bell add to wishlist Toussaint L'Ouverture was a Haitian slave who helped fuel the revolution against the English plantation owners in Haiti in 1793. Madison Smartt Bell creates a portrait of Toussaint over a seven-year period in this biographical novel that illuminates not only the events of history but a complicated, tortured, passionate man. A New York Times ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £9.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Sea of Grey: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure more books like this by Dewey Lambdin add to wishlist The 10th installment in the author's series about the British navy, set during the Napoleonic Wars. In this episode, his hero Alan Lewrie is reunited with his rotter of a father, who shipped Alan off to sea at age 15 in order to enjoy the fruits of the ill-gotten estate that rightly was his son's. After this interlude, Alan is off to sea again--to ... see all copies from £2.40! new only from £10.72! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution more books like this by Laurent DuBois add to wishlist The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the 18th Century Atlantic world. The slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by ... see all copies from £12.48! new only from £14.00!
10	The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and the Haytian Earth more books like this by Derek Walcott add to wishlist Plays by the Nobel-laureate, brought together for the first timeIn the history plays that comprise "The Haitian Trilogy"--"Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours" and "The Haytian Earth"--Derek Walcott, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies as a four-hundred-year cycle of war, conquest and ... see all copies from £6.55! new only from £9.91!
11 view cover	Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection more books like this by Jeremy D Popkin add to wishlist The only truly successful slave uprising in the Atlantic world, the Haitian Revolution gave birth to the first independent black republic of the modern era. Inspired by the revolution that had recently roiled their French rulers, black slaves and people of mixed race alike rose up against their oppressors in a bloody insurrection that led to the ... see all copies from £7.99! new only from £10.05! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below more books like this by Carolyn E Fick add to wishlist see all copies from £10.46! new only from £15.54!
13 view cover	Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom more books like this by Walter Dean Myers, Jacob Lawrence (Photographer) add to wishlist Toussaint L'Ouverture was a freed slave who became general of a Haitian slave army that rose up against the French in 1791, liberating the country. These captivating illustrations by Jacob Lawrence, paired with text by Newbery Honor author Walter Dean Myers, open the doors to Haiti's early history. Full color. see all copies from £5.92! new only from £29.29! \| first editions
14 view cover	Open the Door to Liberty!: A Biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture more books like this by Anne F Rockwell, R Gregory Christie (Illustrator) add to wishlist A renowned children's book author joins a Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner for this account of revolution leader Toussaint L'Ouverture of St. Domingue (now Haiti), who led thousands of African slaves into a revolution for freedom. Full color. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.52! \| first editions
15	The Haitian revolution, 1789-1804 more books like this by Thomas O. Ott add to wishlist see all copies from £6.36! new only from £13.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Secret History, Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo: And, Laura more books like this by Leonora Sansay add to wishlist see all copies from £13.69! new only from £15.58! \| first editions
17	Citizen Toussaint more books like this by Ralph Korngold add to wishlist see all copies from £4.15! signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean more books like this by Alfred N Hunt add to wishlist The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians--slaves, white colonists, and free blacks--fled the upheaval and flooded southern U.S. ports, most notably New Orleans, bringing with ... see all copies from £17.00! new only from £17.00! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Black Napoleon: Toussaint L'Ouverture Liberator of Haiti more books like this by James Jess Hannon add to wishlist see all copies from £13.09! new only from £13.46! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Negro Patriot of Hayti more books like this by John R Beard add to wishlist A newly typeset edition of the classic 1853 biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the brilliant military leader who defeated Napoleon's generals and liberated the slaves of Haiti. see all copies from £5.94! new only from £5.94!
21 view cover	Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World more books like this by Doris L Garraway (Editor) add to wishlist On January 1, 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared the independence of Haiti, thus bringing to an end the only successful slave revolution in history and transforming the colony of Saint-Domingue into the second independent state in the Western Hemisphere. The historical significance of the Haitian Revolution has been addressed by numerous ... see all copies from £19.26! new only from £19.26!
22	1791: A Tale of San Domingo more books like this by Edward Winslow Gilliam add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. LA PLAINE DU NORD. Tourner came of a good English family. A wild, reckless young man, and overwhelmed by debt, he fled his country and found refuge on ... see all copies from £15.70! new only from £15.70!
23 view cover	Bug-Jargal more books like this by Victor Hugo add to wishlist One of the most important works of ninteenth-century colonial fiction, and quite possibly the most sustained novelistic treatment of the Haitian Revolution by a major European author. This edition makes Hugo's novel available in a completely new English translation, the first in over one hundred years. see all copies from £6.22! new only from £7.76!
24	This Gilded African: Toussaint L'Ouverture more books like this by Wenda Parkinson add to wishlist see all copies from £4.12! first editions
25 view cover	Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment more books like this by Nick Nesbitt add to wishlist Unlike the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going well beyond the selective emancipation of white adult male property owners, the Haitian Revolution is of vital importance, Nick Nesbitt argues, in thinking today about the urgent ... see all copies from £17.41! new only from £17.41!

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