![]() ![]() He questioned whether he was targeted because of the color of his skin, bringing racism, an issue that Louverture rarely addressed head on with his whiteinterlocutors, to the fore. ThoughLouverture kept a stoic facade and rarely expressed his innermost thoughts and fears in writing, his memoirs are unusually emotional. ![]() ![]() Louverture's writing provides a vivid alternative perspective to anonymous plantation records, quantitative analyses of slave trading ventures, and slave narratives mediated by white authors. Girard analyzes the significance of the memoirs from a historical, literary, and linguistic perspective. Historian PhilippeGirard presents an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the memoir, based on an original copy in Louverture's hand.Girard's introductory essay, based on archival research in France and the Caribbean, retraces Louverture's career in Haiti and provides a detailed narrative of the last year of Louverture's life. ![]() To defend his name and secure his release, he wrote a vivid account of his career. But Louverture, who had managed to rise from humble slave to governor of the richest of France's colonies, went down fighting. In June 1802, the Haitian revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture was captured by special order of Napoleon Bonaparte and deported to mainland France, where he spent the remainder of his life in captivity in the prison of Fort de Joux. ![]()
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