Gabriel-Jean-Baptiste Larchevesque-Thibaud (1745-1817).

Lettre d'un colon de Saint-Domingue, a un de ses amis.

[Paris], De l'imprimerie de Ch. Desbriere, rue et place Ste. Croix, Chaussée d'Antin [1796].

8°. [2], 13, [1 blank] pp.

Modern marbled boards.

First and only edition of a memorandum by colonist Larchevesque-Thibaud during the Haitian Slave Revolt, in which he presents a fairly realistic and nuanced picture of the impasses of settler politics on the island. He took a more modest path towards the revolting formerly enslaved black population of the colony than most settlers did. For example, he invites the colonists to positively reassess Sonthonax's actions.

Condition: paper slightly browned, more at the end, otherwise in very good condition.

Literature:

Baptiste Biancardini, “L’opinion colonial et la question de la relance de Saint-Domingue 1795-1802.” In: Annales Historiques de La Révolution Française, no. 382, 2015, pp. 63–80.