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Courier Français.

Paris: Gueffier, quai des Augustins, 1791.

8°, 8 pp.

Disbound.

News of the Haitian Revolution in issue no. 326, Tuesday, 22 November 1791, of the Courier Français. It shares a long contemporary report on the slave uprising in Saint-Domingue. The article states that the enslaved population has been in revolt since 22 August, that part of the plain of Le Cap has been burned, that “200 sugar plantations and many coffee plantations” have been destroyed, and that more than 200 whites have already been killed. It reports the presence of three small armies in the field, emphasizes the ferocity of the fighting, and notes the insurgents’ capacity to renew their forces.

A powerful early journalistic account from the opening months of the Haitian Revolution, preserving metropolitan reportage at the moment when the colonial crisis was escalating into a general revolutionary war.

Extracted from a volume of issues. With an added piece of paper to mark the passage on the Revolt.