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Hard cover, 8vo. in black paper-covered boards, titles in gold to the spine, in the original, unclipped pictorial dust jacket, 630pp. CONDITION: Fine, as new, in a Fine dust jacket, now in mylar protector.**"Slave, Revolutionary, Traitor, King and Suicide: Henry Christophe (1767-1820) was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born in 1767 to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island of Granada, Christophe first fought to overthrow the British in North America, before helping his fellow enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue, as Haiti was then called, to gain freedom from France. Yet in an incredible twist of fate, Christophe ended up fighting Napoleon's forces against the very enslaved men and women he once fought alongside. Later, reuniting with those he had betrayed, he offered to lead them and made himself their king. But it all came to a sudden and tragic end when Christophe --after nine years of his rule as King Henry I--shot himself in the heart, some say with a silver bullet. Why did Christophe turn his back on Toussaint Louverture and the very revolution with which his name is so indelibly associated? How did it come to pass that Christophe found himself accused of participating in the plot to assassinate Hait's first ruler, Jean-Jaques Dessalines? What casused Haiti to eventually split into two countries, one ruled by Christophe in the north, who made himself king, and the other led by President Alexandre Pétion in the south?..." (blurb) A fascinating story of Caribbean history, relevant in adding perspective to the concurrent geopolitical forces. AUTHOR Marlene L. Daut, is Professor of French and the American Diaspora Studies at Yale. (AMJ)
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