The Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo

Sawyer Lee, Hannah Farnham (Author)
Toussaint, Pierre (Author)

Third Edition - Boston, MA : Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854

English

First published in Boston in 1854, The Memoir of Pierre Toussaint is Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee's account of the life of Toussaint.  He was born a slave in Haiti, and moved to New York City with the Bérard family of France. He was eventually granted emancipation, and continued to live and work in New York.  Sawyer Lee, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, was a popular author of biographies, and educational and domestically themed novels. In his own biography of Toussaint, Arthur Jones explains that Lee relied on notes and letters written by her sister, Mary Anna Sawyer Schulyer, for the majority of her source material for the Memoir, as Schulyer was a close friend of Toussaint.

Novels
Slave Narratives
Early Caribbean Slave Narratives
Sawyer Schulyer, Mary Anna
HathiTrust
Haiti
New York, New York
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1854

1854

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Lee, Hannah F. S. Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co, 1854