Toussaint Louverture and General Thomas Maitland, Saint Domingue (Haiti), 1790s
Caption, General Maitland meets Toussaint to discuss secret treaty. An artist's rendition of an event during the Haitian revolution, wherein the commander-in-chief of the British Army in Saint Domingue meets with the leader of the revolution. The treaty is described in Alexis, p. 110 ff. This image is also published in the 1985 Paris reprint edition of Antoine Matral, Histoire de l'Expedition des Francais a Saint-Dominique (Paris, 1825), plate 18, where the source is given as an (unidentified) item in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. It is questionable if there are any images of Toussaint that were actually taken from life. See also other images of Toussaint on this website.
Image Title
Toussaint Louverture and General Thomas Maitland, Saint Domingue (Haiti), 1790s
RegID
SI-OB-520
Title
Toussaint Louverture and General Thomas Maitland, Saint Domingue (Haiti), 1790s
Source
Stephen Alexis, Black Liberator: The Life of Toussaint Louverture (New York, 1949), facing p. 96; original source not given.
Language
English
Item sets
Portraits & Illustrations of Individuals
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--St. Domingue
Reproduced In
Stephen Alexis, Black Liberator: The Life of Toussaint Louverture (New York, 1949), p. 96; Antoine Matral, Histoire de l'Expedition des Francais a Saint-Dominique (Paris, 1825; reprinted 1985)
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
10-Jun-16
Identifier
NW0224