A Topographical and Political Description of the Spanish Part of Saint-Domingo, Volumes I and II

by Mederic Elie Louis Moreau de Saint Mery, William Cobbett (Translator), Jonathon Schwartz (Editor)

Overview

William Cobbett's translation of Moreau de Saint Mery's Description of the Spanish Part of Saint Domingue. Modern day Dominican Republic, this details the history and geography of the territory from the arrival of Columbus until the beginning of the slave revolt on the northern plain of modern day Haiti.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160971254
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/30/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	478 KB

About the Author

Mederic Louis Elie Moreau de Saint Mery was a French Creole. He barely escaped the French Revolution, arriving in Philadelphia where he opened a bookstore and wrote his most famous work about the the French part of Saint-Domingue.

William Cobbett was a British Member of Parliabment. After writing The Soldiers Friend(1792), he fled to France only to find himself having to flee the French Revolution for the United States. While he was in the United States he translated the text herein.

Jonathon B. Schwartz has a lifelong love of history and started this endeavor while working at Colonial Williamsburg. He currently resides in Virginia with his family.