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A 1938 book on this event separates one society into “small whites” and “big whites” whose class (10[1])divide left them “sleeping at the edge of Vesuvius.” A leader of this event inspired by Abbe Reynal (“ah-BAY ray-NALL”) was imprisoned at the Fort de Jeux (“zhuh”). This event was fomented by the affranchis and fought by the militias who later split under leaders like Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe (10[1])(“on-REE krees-TOFF”). C. L. R. James’s book The Black Jacobins chronicles this event, during which Charles Leclerc’s (“luh-CLAIR’s”) force was decimated by yellow fever (10[1])while fighting generals like Jean-Jacques Dessalines (“day-sah-LEEN”). For 10 points, Toussaint L’Ouverture (“TOO-sahn loo-vair-TOOR”) led what slave revolt on a French colony (10[1])in the Caribbean? ■END■

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