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Secret history, or, The horrors of St. Domingo ; and, Laura / Leonora Sansay ; edited by Michael J. Drexler.

"Based on Leonora Sansay's eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret History is a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay's writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sansay, Leonora, 1781-
Other Authors: Drexler, Michael J.
Other title:Secret history.
Horrors of St. Domingo.
Laura.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY : Broadview, ©2007.
Series:Broadview editions.
Subjects:
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Fiction.
Slave rebellions > Haiti > Fiction.
Slave rebellions > Haiti.
Slave rebellions.
Haiti.
Fictional Work.
Fiction.
History.
Romans.
Table of Contents:
  • Chronology: Haiti/USA/France/Leonora Sansay
  • Maps of Haiti (1853) and the Caribbean (2005)
  • Secret History; or, the Horrors of St. Domingo
  • Laura
  • App. A. Biographical Documents
  • 1. Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (6 May 1803)
  • 2. Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (6 November 1808)
  • 3. Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (29 July 1812)
  • 4. William Wirt's Speech at Aaron Burr's Trial (August 1807)
  • 5. Review of Laura from The Port-Folio (1809)
  • App. B. Literary Selections
  • 1. Alexander Pope, "Eloisa to Abelard" (1717)
  • 2. From John Armstrong, The Oeconomy of Love (1736)
  • 3. From Germaine de Stael, Influence of the Passions (1796)
  • 4. From [Leonora Sansay?], Zelica, the Creole (1821)
  • App. C. Contextual Documents
  • 1. From Baron de Wimpffen, A Voyage to Saint Domingo (1797)
  • 2. From Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia (1794)
  • 3. [Anonymous], "Renewed War in St. Domingo" (1802)
  • 4. Charles Brockden Brown, "On the Consequences of Abolishing the Slave Trade to the West Indian Colonies" (1805)
  • 5. Engravings from Marcus Rainsford's Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (1805)
  • 6. From Condy Raguet, "Account of the Massacre in St. Domingo" (1807)
  • 7. From [Condy Raguet], "Memoirs of Hayti" (1809-12)
  • 8. Agostino Brunias, Scenes of the West Indies (ca. 1780)
  • Works Cited and Recommended Reading.

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