Focuses on a little-known group of primarily white, male, French philanthropists and their efforts to improve the lives of peoples of African descent in Saint-Domingue during the Haitiain RevolutionChallenges simplistic notions of the Haitian Revolution that lean too heavily on a purported strict racial divide between black and whiteConsiders the activities of philanthropists on both sides of the Atlantic to achieve universal human rights, looking beyond to the larger Atlantic abolition movement  weiterlesen