8vo. 32pp. Handsomely bound in recent antique half-calf, gilt, marbled boards. Occasional mark, three small paper flaws at end without loss of sense.

A contemporary account of the only successful slave revolt in history, which resulted in the foundation of a state ruled by those formerly enslaved, on the French Caribbean island of St. Domingue, now Haiti. As the inclusion of Coulon's account read to the French National Assembly in this volume suggests, the first black insurrection was entwined with the causes and effects of Revolutionary France, which, despite the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man, sought, albeit unsuccessfully, to retake the island from the rebels.