"The Black Napoleon: The Story of Toussaint Louverture", by Percy Waxman, published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1931, stated First Edition [Harcourt marked only the copies of first printing 'First Edition'].

François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803), also known as Toussaint L Ouverture or Toussaint Breda, was the best-known leader of the Haitian Revolution. He was a leader of the growing resistance. His military and political acumen saved the gains of the first Black insurrection in November 1791. He first fought for the Spanish against the French; then for France against Spain and Great Britain; and finally, he fought on behalf of Saint-Domingue in the era of Napoleonic France. He helped transform the slave insurgency into a revolutionary movement. By 1800 Saint-Domingue, the most prosperous French slave colony of the time, had become the first free colonial society to have explicitly rejected race as the basis of social ranking.

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Hard boards, original publisher's orange-yellow cloth with a few red decorations, black lettering on the front board and spine [some wear and soiling]; 5.3/4" x 8.1/2"; endpapers are maps; pen-written name on the first and last blank pages, b/w frontispiece, 298 pages + 3 plates on glossy paper, a few stains, old dump stain on the blank outer edges of the pages 195 through 200, a few small edge creases, some bumped upper page corners, good condition.