Excerpt from History of the Island of St. Domingo: From Its First Discovery by Columbus to the Present Period

From their native shores - the oppressmns and cruelties endured by one generation, after anmher of these hapless beings - the signal vengeance which it pleased Divine Providence to permit them, at length, to in¿ict upon their tyra'nts - and, above all, the acquisition of independence, the introduction and progress of civilization, and the establishment of social order and regular government, among a people whom their Oppressors had denounced as incapable of these benefits. With such claims to attention, it is hoped that the following attempt to furnish a sketch of the History of St. Domingo, derived from au.

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