Pierre-Jean Boquet, The Burning of Cap Français, 1791.
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The monumental significance of the fall of Saint-Domingue, the crown jewel of the French colonial empire, and its ensuant descent into the African savagery of Haiti cannot be overstated. The terrible birth of Haiti as a mangled, stillborn phoenix from a river of white blood Read more …
The Specter of Saint-Domingue Part II: The Horror of Saint-Domingue in the Antebellum South
Auguste Raffet, Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot, 1839.
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Part I
As Saint-Domingue sank ever deeper beneath the churning waves of black filth, those whites fortunate enough to survive fled for the greater Caribbean, including the antebellum American South. The colonists were no longer welcome in their home of France, Read more …