Toussaint L'Ouverture
Subtitle: a biography and autobiography
Contributors: Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Revolutionaries; Biography; Generals; Slavery; History
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

Includes a reprint, with some omissions, of J.R. Beard's Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, London, 1853; and a translation of Mémoires de la vie de Toussaint L'Ouverture, written by himself and edited by Saint-Remy.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

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Transcribed from: Toussaint L'Ouverture : a biography and autobiography. Boston : James Redpath, publisher, 1863. 372 p. : ill., map. "Contains two distinct works- a biography and an autobiography. The biography first published in London... as 'The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti: By the Rev. John R. Beard, D. D., Member of the Historico-Theological Society of Leipsic, etc.'" -- P. iii.

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Table of contents: title: Book 1. From the commencement of the struggle for liberty in Hayti to the full establishment of Toussaint L'Ouverture's power; title: Book 2. From the fitting out of the expedition by Bonaparte against Saint Domingo to the submission of Toussaint L'ouverture; title: Book 3. From the ravages of the yellow fever in Hayti until the deposition and death of its liberator; title: Book 4. Memoir of the life of General Toussaint L'Ouverture, written by himself, in the Chateau de Joux, in a letter to Napoleon Bonaparte.