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

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