Haïti au XVIIIe siècle

the long version

"New edition of Wimpffen's 1797 publication is accompanied by a general essay on Saint-Domingue's economy and society by Pluchon, the most extensively published living French scholar of colonial Haiti. Wimpffen, an army officer from the Rhineland, was sympathetic to both Enlightenment humanitarianism and the profits produced by the plantation system. He provides a valuable and highly readable critique of this colony on the eve of the great slave revolution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.