Jean-Antoine Ailhaud
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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.
