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A 1938 book on this event separates one society into “small whites” and “big whites” (10[1])whose class divide (10[1])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 (10[1])(“zhuh”). This event was fomented by the affranchis and fought by the militias who later split (10[1])under leaders like Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe (“on-REE krees-TOFF”). C. L. R. James’s book The Black Jacobins (10[2])chronicles this event, (10[1])during which Charles Leclerc’s (“luh-CLAIR’s”) force (10[1])was decimated by yellow fever while fighting generals like Jean-Jacques Dessalines (“day-sah-LEEN”). For 10 points, Toussaint (10[1])L’Ouverture (“TOO-sahn loo-vair-TOOR”) led what slave revolt on a French colony in the Caribbean? (10[1])■END■

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