Haïti au XVIIIe siècle
Subtitle: richesse et esclavage dans une colonie française
By: Alexandre-Stanislas de Wimpffen ; édition présentée et annotée par Pierre Pluchon.
Contributors: Pluchon, Pierre.
Series: Relire; Collection Relire.
Publisher: Karthala
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Haiti -- Description and travel.
Description: "New edition of Wimpffen's 1797 publication is accompanied by a general essay on Saint-Domingue's economy and society by Pluchon, the most extensively published living French scholar of colonial Haiti. Wimpffen, an army officer from the Rhineland, was sympathetic to both Enlightenment humanitarianism and the profits produced by the plantation system. He provides a valuable and highly readable critique of this colony on the eve of the great slave revolution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-314) and index.
Originally published: Voyage à Saint-Domingue, pendant les années 1788, 1789 et 1790. Paris : Cocheris, 1797.