Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean
by
Alfred N. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians -- slaves, white colonists, and free blacks -- fled the upheaval and flooded southern...