The Cry of Vertières: Liberation Memory and the Beginning of Haiti (McGill-Queen's French Atlantic Worlds) by Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, Jonathan Kaplansky
English | June 24th, 2020 | ISBN: 0228001404 | 256 pages | EPUB | 6.40 MB
This book tells the story of the Battle of Vertières, fought in 1803 between indigenous Haitian forces under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines and a French expeditionary army commanded by Napoleon. The battle marked the culmination of a thirteen-year revolutionary struggle to end slavery and the dawn of an independent Haiti.