Secret History : Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo, in a Series of Letters
by
Mary Hassal
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108024432
ISBN-13
9781108024433
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 9th, 2010
Print length
234 Pages
Weight
310 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.60 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasHistory of the Americas
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First published in 1808, this is a narrative by an American woman of her life in the French colony of St Domingo during, and after, the slave rebellion which evetually resulted in the independence of Haiti. The tone is anecdotal, but is an eyewitness account of a turbulent period.
Leonora Mary Hassal Sansay (b. 1781), also known as Mary Hassal, was U.S. Vice-President Aaron Burr's niece. This work, first published in 1808, takes the form of a series of letters to her uncle, describing the events which she witnessed between 1802 and 1805 in the French colony of St Domingo, which became the Republic of Haiti in 1804 after a fierce revolution. A large French army under General Leclerc was sent by Napoleon to retake the colony from the ex-slave Toussaint Louverture and his army. Hassal depicts life under the French occupation, and also in Cuba and Jamaica, to which many settlers from St Domingo fled. She comments particularly on the position and occupations of women, but regrets their subjection to and dependence on men. The tone is anecdotal, but the volume will be of interest to social historians as an eyewitness account of a turbulent period.
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