Avengers of the New World by Laurent Dubois

Author:Laurent Dubois [Dubois, Laurent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-09-27T01:22:00+00:00

"Toussaint Louverture." There are numerous, and startlingly diverse, images of Louverture from the period. This wellknown engraving was first published in Marcus Rainsford, A Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (1805). Courtesy of the Bihliotheque Nationale de France.

The situation Louverture faced was particularly challenging. He came to power in a colony devastated by insurrection and war, inhabited by a fragmented and diverse population, and for much of his time in power received little support, either material or political, from metropolitan France. As a black officer committed to the participation of men of African descent at the highest levels of administration, he confronted a lingeringand eventually resurgent-racism within the French government. And as he sought to assure the preservation of liberty in SaintDomingue, he had to navigate a complicated set of imperial conflicts and relationships that placed constraints on his social and economic policies.

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