FRENCH CARIBBEAN – SOUTH WAR: An excellent L.S., `Rasond´, three pages, folio, Léogâne, Saint Domingue, 4th ...

FRENCH CARIBBEAN – SOUTH WAR: An excellent L.S., `Rasond´, three pages, folio, Léogâne, Saint Domingue, 4th September 1799, to Desbordes, in French. Rasond, in his capacity as procurator at Léogâne, states `The report that agent Romme and General Toussaint Louverture had to send to the Marine Minister and to the Directory about the present insurrection in this colony…you will learn that the Petit-Goâve and the Grand-Goâve have been invaded by the army of the former General Rigaud..´ further saying `General Beauvais, Commandant on Chief at Jacmel, is supporting Rigaud, and his troops have attacked our defender General Toussaint´s army.. Everything has been burned, the last year coffee harvest.. Although until now I have not been burned myself at home, I am, as you are, without farmers to harvest, and all will be lost..we have had for several days in town more than 6000 men welcomed as liberators..´ With addressee to the fourth page. Small area of paper loss to the opening of the letter, not affecting the text or signature. VG £300-400 François Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803) Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He first fought for the Spanish against the French; then for France against Spain and Great Britain; and finally, for Saint Domingue against Napoleonic France. He transformed the insurgency into a revolutionary movement, which by 1800 had turned Saint-Domingue, the most prosperous slave colony of the time, into the first free colonial society to have explicitly rejected race as the basis of social ranking.