Writing as a lady at Cap Français to Aaron Burr, Leonora Sansay describes the last months of French rule in Saint-Domingue under General Rochambeau: balls and flirtations among the colonists, her beautiful sister Clara’s unhappy marriage, and the terror of the war with the revolutionary armies. The book mixes eyewitness report and fiction.
An early American work by a woman, valuable on the Haitian Revolution, written wholly from the colonists’ side. Download the free EPUB.