TY - BOOK ID - 86193348 TI - The memoir of general Toussaint Louverture AU - Toussaint Louverture AU - Girard, Philippe R AU - Toussaint Louverture AU - Toussaint Louverture PY - 2014 SN - 0199393524 0190254580 0199937230 0199937222 1306315891 9780199937233 9780199937226 PB - Oxford New York DB - UniCat KW - Generals KW - Revolutionaries KW - Toussaint Louverture, KW - Haiti KW - History KW - Toussaint-Bréda, Pierre Dominique, KW - Bréda, Pierre Dominique Toussaint-, KW - Toussaint, François Dominique, KW - Toussaint, Pierre Dominique, KW - Louverture, Toussaint, KW - Ouverture, Toussaint L', KW - Ṭusain Luverṭir, KW - Toussaint Louverture, Pierre Dominique, KW - Toussaint L'Ouverture, François-Dominique, KW - L'Overture, Toussaint, KW - טוסיין לוברטיר, KW - Tousen Breda, Franswa Dominik, KW - Breda, Franswa Dominik Tousen, KW - Lauverture, KW - Louverture, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86193348 AB - Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture's hand never before published. Historian Philippe Girard begins with an introductory essay that retraces Louverture's career as a slave, rebel, and governor. Girard provides a detailed narrative of the last year of Louverture's life, and analyzes the significance of the memoirs and letters from a historical and ER -