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Description and Holding Information
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Metral, History of Slave Revolt in St.-Dom., 1818
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Histoire de l'insurrection des esclaves dans le nord de Saint-Domingue: by Antoine Métral, ix+10-100p, Paris, etc., F. Scherff, etc., 1818. (Lacks
TOC & index. Metral, citing Dalmas, injects into his description of the notorious Bois Caïman “pact with Satan” voodoo ceremonies that allegedly took
place at the beginning of the slave revolt an account of a long oration {pp. 16-20}. David Patrick Geggus, in his Haitian Revolutionary Studies {note
56, p. 253} characterizes the reported speech as “quite absurd” and “evidently apocryphal.”)
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Title:
Histoire de l'insurrection des esclaves dans le nord de Saint-Domingue / par Antoine Métral.
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OCLC Number:
367949804
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Volume 1 | | Yes | No |
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