A second Haitian revolution: John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the making of the American Civil War.(Event overview) Civil War History | June 1, 2008| | COPYRIGHT 2008 Kent State University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

"One of the most extraordinary men of a time when so many extraordinary men appeared." (1) The French historian Alphonse Beauchamp, who wrote these words in the Universal Biography at the opening of the nineteenth century as a series of democratic revolutions in Europe and throughout the Americas came to an end, did not intend them for George Washington, the Virginia planter who led Britain's thirteen North American colonies to independence. Nor did he intend them for Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican soldier who brought order out of the chaos of the French Revolution and ...

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