Thomas Madiou
1814–1884 · Historian
public domain
Histoire d'Haïti remains the foundational narrative history, written from testimony of people who were there.
Il affaiblit sa gloire en oubliant que tous les hommes ont les mêmes droits à la liberté.
He diminished his own glory by forgetting that all men have the same right to liberty.
On Las Casas, celebrated as the defender of the Indigenous of Hispaniola, who proposed African slavery to relieve them.
Histoire d'Haïti, tome I (1847), p. v (Introduction) · scan
Connected people
- Beaubrun Ardouinthe rival history
Works
- Histoire d'Haïti (1847-1848)