Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction. From Saint-Domingue to Haiti: Eyewitness Narratives of the Haitian Revolution 1
6. CHAPTER 1. Becoming a Slavemaster 37
7. CHAPTER 2. The Ogé Insurrection 43
8. CHAPTER 3. The First Days of the Slave Insurrection 49
9. CHAPTER 4. A Poet in the Midst of Insurrection: “Mon Odyssée” 59
10. CHAPTER 5. An Expedition against the Insurgents in November 1791 93
11. CHAPTER 6. Inside the Insurgency: Gros’s Historick Recital 105
12. CHAPTER 7. Prisoners of the Insurgents in 1792 156
13. CHAPTER 8. Fighting and Atrocities in the South Province in 1792–1793 169
14. CHAPTER 9. Masters and Their Slaves during the Insurrection 174
15. CHAPTER 10. The Destruction of Cap Français in June 1793 180
16. CHAPTER 11. A Colonist at Sea, 1793 233
17. CHAPTER 12. Imagining the Motives behind the Insurrection 245
18. CHAPTER 13. A Colonist among the Spanish and the British 252
19. CHAPTER 14. A White Captive in the Struggle against the Leclerc Expedition 270
20. CHAPTER 15. A Family Reunion and a Religious Conversion 313
21. CHAPTER 16. A Woman’s View of the Last Days of Cap Français 317
22. CHAPTER 17. A Child’s Memories of the Last Days of Saint-Domingue 329
23. CHAPTER 18. A Survivor of Dessalines’s Massacres in 1804 336
24. CHAPTER 19. The Story of the Last French Survivors in Saint-Domingue 363
25. Notes 367
26. Bibliography 387
27. Index 391