Present State of Haiti (Saint Domingo), 1828: With Remarks on its Agriculture, Commerce, Laws Religi

First published in 1972. This is Volume four of a collection of ten source books on Haiti and looks at the present state of its agriculture, economics, laws, religion and details of its inhabitants as in 1842. Franklin was a frequent visitor to the West Indies and sook to understand the Haitian experience of independence in order to assess the probable impact of emancipation in the Anglophone Caribbean.