ABSTRACT
The circumstances connected with the deliverance of the negro population of St. Domingo from slavery, have been related with great exactness and impartiality. But at the present time, when the subject of general emancipation excites universal interest, it may be proper to review the principal transactions which led to so important an event; as by this means we shall be enabled to determine the causes, not only of the expulsion of the French from their richest and most extensive colony, but of the cruelties and barbarities which the Haytians are said to have perpetrated during their struggle for liberty and independence.
