Vida de J. J. Dessalines, gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo; con notas muy circunstanciadas sobre el origen, cara´cter y atrocidades de los principales gefes de aquellos rebeldes desde el principio de la insurreccion en 1791

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A Spanish translation and the first edition in the Americas of a biography of the first Emperor of Haiti, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, attributed to Jean-François Dubroca. The book is bound in tan and dark brown patterned calf leather. Along the spine are five gold flowers and the title, also in gold. The exterior edges of the pages are tinted blue. The interior is printed in black ink on white paper and contains ten engraved plates. The illustrations include portraits of Dessalines and other revolutionary figures as well as several scenes of the Revolution. The first plate is a frontispiece portrait of Georges Biassou. There are 106 numbered pages with a portrait of Dessalines appearing on the last, unnumbered page (107).

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