The first and last king of Haiti : The rise and fall of Henry Christophe / Marlene L. Daut.

Author's note on terminology
Prologue: King Henry's drama
Introduction: On doing justice to Christophe's story
A future king is born
A child in a world of slavery and revolution
Tracing genealogies to the future king
Rising and falling with revolution
Complicated victories
Love, loss, and betrayal under uncertain skies
America avenged
Empires rise....
Cracks in imperial authority
Empires fall....
The dawn of civil war
A king is crowned
Three French spies
The age of Christophean diplomacy
The age of Christophean prosperity
Cracks in kingly authority
A king is gone, but not forgotten
Kingdom of the next world
Epilogue: The greatest heist in history
Acknowledgments
Illustration credits
List of abbreviations