a316: Re: a316; The oldest biography of Toussaint Louverture????? 1802 French version offered. Corbett comments

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Edward Baptist <eebaptist@yahoo.com>

Dear Bob Corbett:  Here is an older biography of
Toussiant Louverture, of which the University of
Miami's Special Collections (which has an excellent
colletcion of rare books relating to Haiti, as well as
other Caribbean islands) holds a copy.  This is a very
unfriendly biography, highly pro-Bonaparte, but a
biography all the same.  Below is a copy of the
catalog entry, although some characters with accents
did not translate well (hence the ? marks).

Record 2 of 2
Author Dubroca, 1757-ca. 1835
Title La vie de Toussaint-Louverture, chef des noirs
insurgee de Saint-Domingue ... Suivie de notes
preeuses sur Saint-Domingue, sur plusieurs personages
qui ont jou? r? dans la revolution de cette ?, et des
premiers operations militaires du general Leclerc. Par
Dubroca
Imprint Paris, Dubroca [etc.] an X-1802


LOCATION  CALL NO.  STATUS
  ASC Special   F1923 .T79    ROOM USE ONLY
Descript [4], 74 p. port. 22 cm
Note U.M. copy has marble boards and endpapers. Green
spine with gold-stamped label
Subject Toussaint Louverture, 1743?-1803
 Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804

Best,
Ed Baptist

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Edward E. Baptist
Department of History
University of Miami
PO Box 248107
Coral Gables, FL  33124-4662
(305)284-5203/(305) 284-3660
ebaptist@miami.edu

Corbett adds:  Okay, perhaps I own THE OLDEST PRO-TOUSSAINT biography,
even if it is primarily postive to suite Great Britain's immediate
political needs!!!!  :)  Hey, history happens this way!!
Bob


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