A French General and a Black Officer (Toussaint Louverture?), Saint Domingue ( Haiti), 1806
Caption, El cuidad[a]no. Heudoville habla al mentor delos Negros sobre las malas resultas de su revelion (Citizen Heudoville speaks to the leader of the Negros about the bad results of his rebellion). This illustration is a portrait of General Thomas Heudoville, with a black man in an officer's uniform, probably meant to be Toussaint Louverture. (No known eye-witness portraits of Toussaint exist; see other images of Toussaint on this website.) Heudoville was sent by the French revolutionary government as its agent in St. Domingue. He arrived in March 1798. Charged with taking control of the colony, he came into conflict with Toussaint who suspected him of being sympathetic to pro-slavery forces in France. Toussaint isolated the general who was expelled from the colony; before leaving, however, he was able to encourage Toussaint's chief rival, Rigaud, helping to start a civil war (see Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: the story of the Haitian revolution [Harvard Univ. Press, 2004], pp. 217-223).
Image Title
A French General and a Black Officer (Toussaint Louverture?), Saint Domingue ( Haiti), 1806
RegID
SI-OB-546
Date
1806
Title
A French General and a Black Officer (Toussaint Louverture?), Saint Domingue ( Haiti), 1806
Source
Jean-Louis Dubroca, Vida de J. J. Dessalines, gefe de los Negros de Santo Domingo (Mexico, 1806; first published, Paris 1802), following p. 18.
Language
Spanish
Item sets
Portraits & Illustrations of Individuals
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--St. Domingue
Reproduced In
Jean-Louis Dubroca, Vida de J. J. Dessalines, gefe de los Negros de Santo Domingo (Mexico, 1806; first published, Paris 1802), following p. 18.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
2-Apr-16
Identifier
JCB_67-270-3