Remembering the Haitian Revolution Through French Texts: Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal and Alphonse de Lamartine's Toussaint Louverture
The Haitian Revolution was the first successful slave revolt in history. And even though Haiti declared independence from France in 1804, most French civilization textbooks do not include this important event. From an economic standpoint, France depended on its imports from Saint-Domingue (Haiti...
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BYU ScholarsArchive
2013
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| Online Access: | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3893 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4892&context=etd |