... to Santander reveal. It had previously been known that Bolívar received substantial assistance from Petión with no strings attached except for the Liberator’s promise to free the slaves in his native country, and Verna confirms and enlarges this information. He has also been able to assemble a list...

...Rayford W. Logan Copyright 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 La fondation de la République d’Haïti par Alexandre Pétion . By Dalencour François . ( Port-au-Prince : Published by the author , 1944 . Pp. 344 . $2.00 .) ...

... the scenes for the Venezuelan’s two expeditions that sought to bring independence to his homeland. The author has very ably woven the activities of Sutherland, Bolívar, President Alexandre Pétion, diplomats, spies, various subordinates and rivals of Bolívar, and many other characters into an interesting...

... of Jefferson, Pitt, Castlereagh, Napoleon, and Talleyrand. He overshadows Louverture, Dessalines, and Pétion. While the footnotes place an undue burden on the reader, the usefulness of the volume is enhanced by maps, annotated index, table of events, comprehensive bibliography, and ten illustrations...

... with European history. The French colonial system and the rebellion of the Blacks are well summarized. The Heinls are less worshipful than many other writers of Toussaint L’Ouverture, more generous with Henry Christophe, and more critical of Alexandre Pétion as the founder of a lazy, static society...

... to these questions is the effectiveness of the land policy of Pétion and his successor Boyer. Moya Pons is quite firm in concluding that the economy was severely depressed and disorganized in both the western and eastern parts of the island. However, Franklin J. Franco, offering even less evidence in Los negros...

... in 1804 was not a “republic” (p. 112), although historians persist in so describing it. King Christophe distributed land belatedly and to very few of his soldiers, not early on and to all of them. The rural code was introduced by President Jean-Pierre Boyer, not his predecessor, Alexandre Pétion. More...