@article{439012,
      author = {Girard, Philippe R.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/439012},
      title = {The slaves who defeated Napoleon Toussaint Louverture and  the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804 / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Alabama Press,},
      abstract = {To a contemporary audience, Haiti brings to mind Voodoo  spells, Tontons Macoutes, and boat people--nothing worth  fighting over. Two centuries ago, however, Haiti, then  known as Saint-Domingue, was the & ldquo;Pearl of the  Antilles, & rdquo; France's most valuable overseas colony,  the largest exporter of tropical products in the world, and  the United States' second most important trading partner  after England. Haiti was also the place where in 1801-1802  Napoľon Bonaparte sent the largest colonial venture of his  reign: the Leclerc expedition.},
      recid = {439012},
      pages = {1 online resource (vi, 444 p.) :},
      address = {Tuscaloosa :},
      year = {2011},
}