{"product_id":"9781462830503","title":"The Collective Works of Yves: Haiti's Number One Patriot","description":"The past year has seen an increasing interest in black history on the part of white Americans.  Although the media headlines concentrate on racial conflict, it is too often overlooked that there are examples of multiracial societies that have been successful.  One of these existed in St. Domingue (now Haiti), under the leadership of Toussaint L'Ouverture.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eIn a direct prose style, the author, Yves J. Jerome, outlines the complex political and social processes that generated Toussaint L'Ouverture.  He sketches Toussaint L'Ouverture's early life, born a slave in St. Domingue, his young dreams of a society based on dignity and self-respect for all races, his strategy for bringing about this dream, his attempt to realize it by training an army of black Africans to overthrow the slaveholders, and finally founding a fatherland for African slaves, at last able to live free and proud.  Here was a small nation with an ethical code of freedom for all, black, white, and mulatto living together without racial distinctions.  What was the reaction of other countries to this society?  The author examines the attitudes of France, Britain, Spain, and the United States under President John Adams.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003ePart history, part biography, this is the story of a committed idealist, a dramatic report of the explosive Caribbean, with a tense climax as Napoleon I, at the height of his power, turns his gaze on Toussaint L'Ouverture.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124712620272,"sku":"9781462830503","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462830503_p0.jpg?v=1763678676","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462830503","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}