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Includes a reprint, with some omissions, of J.R. Beard's Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, London, 1853; and a translation of Mémoires de la vie de Toussaint L'Ouverture, written by himself and edited by Saint-Remy.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

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Transcribed from: Toussaint L'Ouverture : a biography and autobiography. Boston : James Redpath, publisher, 1863. 372 p. : ill., map. "Contains two distinct works- a biography and an autobiography. The biography first published in London... as 'The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti: By the Rev. John R. Beard, D. D., Member of the Historico-Theological Society of Leipsic, etc.'" -- P. iii.

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