2 v. ;|c22 cm. (8vo) "De l'Imprimerie de Mame frères": verso of half-title leaf, v. 1

According to Bissainthe, a second edition was also printed in 1814

According to the author in his preface, this account of the revolution in Haiti was written, from exile in the United States, in the Winter of 1793-1794

Includes a description of a voodoo ceremony among the black slaves in Bois Caïman (v. 1, p. 117-118) on the 14th of August, 1791 on the Norman plantation, at which the slave leader Boukman, himself a priest or oungan, slit the throat of a large black pig and commanded everyone there to drink. Everyone swore an oath to fight for freedom until death. Although the term "voodoo" is not used by name, Michèle Oriel, in the Histoire et dictionnaire de la révolution et de l'indépendance d'Haiti, p. 185, claims that Dalmas is the first to describe such a ceremony in print. For a more full description of the ceremony, see Robert Debs and Nancy Gordon Heinl's Written in Blood: the story of the Haitian people 1492-1995, p. 39-40

"Mémoire sur le rétablissement de Saint-Domingue", v. 2, p. [235]-294, has divisional title page

Pagination: v. 1: [4], xvi, 352 p. ; v. 2: [4], 301, [1] p., [1] folded leaf

Signatures: v. 1: pi² a 1-8 9 *9 10 (-10) *10² (-*10) 11-22; v. 2: pi² 1-18 (15 verso blank) 19 (-19)

Folded leaf in v. 2 bound to face p. 294 consiSts of 3 separate tables; table 1 has two tables which have been prepared by Charles Wante and published in 1805 to demonstrate the economic importance of Saint-Domingue to the French: "Extrait du tableau des exportations faites par la colonie de Saint-Domingue, depuis le 1er janvier jusqu'au 31 décembre 1789", "Récapitulation et évaluation des denrées exportées de la colonie de Saint-Domingue en 1789"; tables 2 and 3 have no title but refer to commerce between Saint-Domingue and Nantes

Sabin

Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne

John Carter Brown Library copy has folded table in v. 2 intended to be bound to face p. 294 misbound after table of contents

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary blonde calf with marbled boards

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund

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