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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ed in our own days, it may not be thought necessary to particularize the several chiefs of colour who have successively wielded the sword of authority, but it may not at the same time be deemed irrelevant to the subject proposed, before I enter on my general description of the Spanish part of Hispanola, to give a succinct outline of the old French division, now known by the name of Haiti, CHAP. II. PRESENT GOVERNMENT OF HAITI In the year 1790 the French division contained 497,000 souls, of which 38,000 were whites, 9000 people of brown colour, and 450,000 blacks. The wars of Rigaud, Tous- saint, and the French 'destruction, are estimated at nearly one half, and emigration, and the natural decrease of blacks when left to themselves, may be safely calculated to equal one third; by which it would result, that the present.population consists of about 100,000 souls, a statement that even exceeds the eht: - mate of the most sensible among them; for the late and existing intestine divisions have greatly thinned their numbers, and a state of continual warfare with dubious issue, has driven many to seek quiet in other countries. Their onsets are still often sanguinary, and quarter is seldom given by the victor. Thus in point of population they are, as will hereafter appear, on nearly an equal footing with their Spanish neighbours. General Petion holds' possession of the S. side of the island, at the head of the brown colour, but their line of division varies, as each party advances or recedes, and the seat of government is at Port au Prince. He is of a sensible humane character; tutored in the schools of Europe, his mind has received an expansion that fits him for the 'helm of government, and his exterior an address that would distinguish him in a court. Ill suited perhaps ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217030922
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217030920
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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