Secret History Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura

Name: Secret History Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura
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ISBN: 9781551113463

ISBN-10: 1551113465

ISBN-13: 9781551113463

Edition: 2007

Authors: Leonora Sansay, Michael J. Drexler

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List price: $26.75
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication date: 6/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Michael J. Drexler is Associate Professor of English at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He is editor of Leonora Sansay’s Secret History; or The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura and co-editor of Haiti and the Early US: Histories, Textualities, Geographies .



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Chronology: Haiti/USA/France/Leonora Sansay


Maps of Haiti (1853) and the Caribbean (2005)


A Note on the Text


Secret History; or, the Horrors of St. Domingo


Laura



Biographical Documents



Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (6 May 1803)



Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (6 November 1808)



Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (29 July 1812)



William Wirt's Speech at Aaron Burr's Trial (August 1807)



Review of Laura from The Port-Folio (1809)



Literary Selections



Alexander Pope, "Eloisa to Abelard" (1717)



From John Armstrong, The Oeconomy of Love (1736)



From Germaine de Stael, Influence of the Passions (1796)



From [Leonora Sansay?], Zelica, the Creole (1821)



Contextual Documents



From Baron de Wimpffen, A Voyage to Saint Domingo (1797)



From Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia (1794)



[Anonymous], "Renewed War in St. Domingo" (1802)



Charles Brockden Brown, "On the Consequences of Abolishing the Slave Trade to the West Indian Colonies" (1805)



Engravings from Marcus Rainsford's Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (1805)



From Condy Raguet, "Account of the Massacre in St. Domingo" (1807)



From [Condy Raguet], "Memoirs of Hayti" (1809-12)



Agostino Brunias, Scenes of the West Indies (ca. 1780)


Works Cited and Recommended Reading