According to the legacy of roughly 15,000 Saint-Domingue refugees - whites,slave, and loose humans of color - who settled in Louisiana among 1791 and 1815 pressured! to escape their French Caribbean colony following a slave uprising which gave beginning to the Haitian Republic in January 1804 they unfold through the Caribbean and alongside the North American Atlantic coast.
Dessens examines the legacy of roughly 15,000 Saint-Domingue refugees--whites, slaves, and loose humans of color--who settled in Louisiana among 1791 and 1815. pressured to escape their French Caribbean colony following a slave uprising that gave beginning to the Haitian Republic in January 1804, they unfold through the Caribbean and alongside the North American Atlantic coast.