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An Inquiry into the Causes of the Insurrection of the Negroes in the Island of St. Domingo .
Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1792. Octavo (8 ½ x 4 ¾ inches, 215x120 mm). Disbound, but uncut. Condition: Some cellotape staining along lower and outer margins of the half-title and title, a few other minor stains from cellotape within, else minor soiling. first american edition, describing the most successful slave revolt in the western hemisphere. This is a translation of testimony given at the French National Assembly concerning the origins of Toussant Overture's Haitian Revolution of 1791, arguing that the planter's mistreatment of mullatoes was responsible for the riots. Evans 24426; Sabin 75135.