JCB online, b2662709. Not in Sabin. <\/i><\/p>\n
First and only edition, very rare, illustrated with a fine large folding map.<\/span><\/p>\n The Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France attributes this work to the Creole Fran\u00e7ois Laplace, a colonist from Saint-Domingue, owner of a coffe plantation and defender of the cause of slavery. Other probable authors are Fran\u00e7ois Barb\u00e9 de Marbois and Michel-\u00c9tienne Descourtilz.<\/p>\n This work is a first-hand account of the revolution in Saint-Domingue from September 1789 until the author’s flight in 1793, as described in his preface : “Cet ouvrage contient le r\u00e9cit d’\u00e9v\u00e8nements, qui, quels qu’en aient \u00e9t\u00e9 pour tous l’importance et le r\u00e9sultat, sont rest\u00e9s inconnus jusqu’aujourd’hui , ou dont on ignore du moins les causes, l’encha\u00eenement et la conclusion. Ce n’est, \u00e0 proprement parler, qu’un r\u00e9daction suivie de notes prises dans cette colonie pendant un s\u00e9jour d’un assez grand nombre d’ann\u00e9es, et qui forment un tableau des malheurs qui l’ont ruin\u00e9e et presqu’an\u00e9antie” (p. VI).<\/p>\n The work begins with a brief description of this colony (pp. 1-118): colonial regime, foundation and division of the colony, geology, inhabitants and towns. It is followed by a very detailed description of the state of Saint Domingue under the despotic Ancien R\u00e9gime (La Luzerne, Duchilleau, Marbois), then relates with great precision the insurrectionary movements of the revolutionaries, details on the brigands named Coco-Michel, Macaia, Pierrot, etc. The work ends with a postscript on the appalling massacre at Fort-Dauphin.<\/p>\n The engraved map does not bear any indication to any author. It is titled: Carte de l’Isle de St. Domingue une des grandes Antilles, Colonie fran\u00e7oise et espagnole<\/i>. It shows in the north-west part a portion of Cuba.<\/p>\n Very rare; Sabin mentions this work only in the footnote for item no. 3312 on R\u00e9flexions sur la colonie de Saint-Domingue<\/i> (Paris 1796) by Barb\u00e9-Marbois.<\/p>\n Very good copy albeit rare ocasional foxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 8vo (190 x 120 mm) XII, 388 pp., 1 large engraved folding map. Later half-blue calf, flat spine elaborately gilt in romantic style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":86824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[552],"product_tag":[1363,1366],"class_list":{"0":"post-86831","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-travel","7":"product_tag-caribbean","8":"product_tag-slavery","9":"pa_auteur-laplace-francois-4","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"outofstock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"Fran\u00e7ois] [LAPLACE","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Garnery, 1795 an III [1795]","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n