Girard can justifiably claim to have contributed greatly to the unearthing of new documentary sources and it is this material which emboldens him to put forward a revisionist portrait of Toussaint as a many-sided character of intriguing complexity. Looking at Girard’s endnotes, one sees only one other recent biography, the book by Maddison Smartt Bell ( Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, 2007) which Girard dismisses as an inadequate study based on insufficient documentary sources. Of course, the broader field of the controversial Haitian revolution is passionately attractive to intellectuals all over the world. In this book, Philippe Girard puts the icing on the cake of this remarkable twenty-first-century series of re-appraisals of a subject, the biography of Toussaint Louverture, which seems not to have attracted recent English-language historians.
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