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Book Openers: Haiti’s History — and the American Civil War

By Barbara | January 19, 2010

A timely offering from the University of Pennsylvania Press: Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution, by Matthew J. Clavin, University of Pennsylvania Press, 248 pages, illus. , cloth, 2009, $39.95.

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