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The true state of the case, respecting the insurrection at St. Domingo.

In this written statement, Thomas Clarkson, an English abolitionist, spoke about the Haitian revolution and the viewpoint of the English abolitionist…

This letter was written to President Thomas Jefferson by the leader of Haiti, Jean Jacques Dessalines.

A particular account of the commencement and progress of the insurrection of the negroes in St. Domingo, which began in August, 1791

This is a transcription of a speech made to the French assembly in Paris, 1792. The purpose of the speech was to inform the French assembly about the…

This letter is written by Thomas Jefferson in 1803 to John Page. Within the letter Jefferson discusses a plan to send freed slaves to Sierra Leone…

Carte de l'Isle St. Domingue

Created by Moreau de Saint Méry in 1976, likely in Paris, France. This is one of the most detailed maps of St. Domingue island drafted before the…