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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 (10[1])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 under 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[2])during (10[1])which Charles Leclerc’s (“luh-CLAIR’s”) force was decimated by yellow fever 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 (10[1])on a French colony in the Caribbean? ■END■

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