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| − | '''Jean-Antoine Ailhaud''' arrived in [[Le Cap]] aboard the ''America'' as a Civil Commissioner to [[Saint-Domingue]] on | + | '''Jean-Antoine Ailhaud''' arrived in [[Le Cap]] aboard the ''America'' as a Civil Commissioner to [[Saint-Domingue]] on September 17, [[1792]]. ([[Avengers of the New World|Dubois]], p. 142) After a month on the job, he abandoned his co-Commissioners [[Léger Félicité Sonthonax]] and [[Étienne Polverel]] and returned to France. ([[The Making of Haiti|Fick]], p 315 n3) |
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| + | C.L.R. James calls Ailhaud a "''nonentity''". ([[James]] p. 118) | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
* {{The Making of Haiti}} | * {{The Making of Haiti}} | ||
* {{Avengers of the New World}} | * {{Avengers of the New World}} | ||
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[[Category:Who's Who|Ailhaud, Jean-Antoine]] | [[Category:Who's Who|Ailhaud, Jean-Antoine]] | ||
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[[Category:Whites|Ailhaud, Jean-Antoine]] | [[Category:Whites|Ailhaud, Jean-Antoine]] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:19, 24 July 2006
Jean-Antoine Ailhaud arrived in Le Cap aboard the America as a Civil Commissioner to Saint-Domingue on September 17, 1792. (Dubois, p. 142) After a month on the job, he abandoned his co-Commissioners Léger Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel and returned to France. (Fick, p 315 n3)
C.L.R. James calls Ailhaud a "nonentity". (James p. 118)
References
- Fick, Carolyn E. (1990). The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 0-87049-667-0.
- Dubois, Laurent. (2004). Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01304-2.
- James, C.L.R. (1989). The Black Jacobins. Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. (2nd Ed., Revised) New York: Vintage Press. ISBN 0-679-72467-2.
