[25] See Numbers LVI., LVIII., LIX., and LXV. of this magazine.
[26] _La Cause des Esclaves Nègres et des Habitans de la Guinée, portée
au Tribunal de la Justice, de la Religion, de la Politique_: I. 335; II.
66.
[27] _Gros peau_, thick skin, was the French equivalent to _Bozal_:
_peau fin_ was the Creole negro.
[28] Clarkson's _History of the Abolition of the Slave-Trade_, Vol. II.
p. 134.
[29] _Anthropologie der Naturvölker_, von Dr. Theodor Waitz. Zweiter
Theil: die Negervölker und ihre Verwandten. Leipzig, 1860. Very full,
minute, and humane in tone, though telling all the facts about the
manners and habits of native Africans.
_Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de la Révolution de Saint Dominique._
Par le Lieutenant-Général Baron Pamphile de La Croix. 2 Tom. Generally
very fair to the negro soldier: himself a distinguished soldier.
_Le Système Colonial dévoilé._ Par le Baron de Vastey, mulatto. Terrible
account of the plantation cruelties.
_Mémoires pour servir a l'Histoire d'Hayti._ Par l'Adjutant-Général
Boisrond-Tonnerre. Written to explain the defection of Dessalines from
Toussaint, and the military movements of the former. The author was a
mulatto.
_Des Colonies, et particulièrement de celle de Saint-Domingue; Mémoire
Historique et Politique._ Par le Colonel Malenfant, Chevalier de la
Légion d'Honneur, etc. A pretty impartial book, by a pro-slavery man.
_L. F. Sonthonax à Bourdon de l'Oise._ Pamphlet. The vindication of
Sonthonax for declaring emancipation.
_Colonies Étrangères et Haïti._ Par Victor Schoelcher. 2 Tom. Valuable,
but leaning too much towards the negro against the mulatto.
_Histoire des Désastres de Saint-Domingue._ Paris, 1795. Journalistic,
with the coloring of the day.
_Campagnes des Français à Saint-Domingue, et Réfutation des Reproches
faits au Capitaine-Général Rochambeau._ Par Ph. Albert de Lattre,
Propriétaire, etc., 1805. Shows that Rochambeau could not help himself.
_Voyages d'un Naturaliste._ 3 Tom. Par Descourtilz. Pro-slavery, but
filled with curious information.
_Expédition à St. Domingue._ Par A. Metral. Useful.
_The Empire of Hayti._ By Marcus Rainsford, Captain in West-Indian
Regiment. Occasionally valuable.
[30] The independent Congos in the interior are more active and
courageous, expert and quarrelsome than those upon the coast, who have
been subjected by the Portuguese.
[31] When the insurgents evacuated a fort near Port-au-Prince, upon the
advance of the English, a negro was left in the powder-magazine with a
lighted match, to wait till the place was occupied. Here he remained all
night; but when the English came later than was expected, his match had
burned out. Was that insensibility to all ideas, or devotion to one?
[32] Praloto was a distinguished Italian in the French artillery
service. His battery of twenty field-pieces at Port-au-Prince held the
whole neighborhood in check, till at length a young negro named
Hyacinthe roused the slaves to attack it. In the next fight, they rushed
upon this battery, insensible to its fire, embraced the guns and were
bayoneted, still returned to them, stuffed the arms of their dead
comrades into the muzzles, swarmed over them, and extinguished the fire.
This was done against a supporting fire of French infantry. The blacks
lost a thousand men, but captured the cannon, and drove the whole force
into the city.
[33] _Think twice before you try me_: the name of a _morne_ of
extraordinary difficulty, which had to be surmounted by one of the
French columns.
[34] Negro authorities say 750.