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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (2nd Edition) Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1989 ISBN-10: 0-679-72467-2 / 0679724672 ISBN-13: 978-0-679-72467-4 / 9780679724674 In 1789 the French colony of Saint Domingue was the most profitable real estate in the world. These profits came at a price: while its sugar plantations supplied two-thirds of France's overseas trade, they also stimulated the greatest individual market for the slave trade. The slaves were brutally t |