The story of the invention of the Franklin stove, the first Poor Richard's Almanac, and his experiments with electricity are all included here.

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Yet, as the cultural records of neighboring Cuba and the Dominican Republic show, the story of the Haitian Revolution has been told as one outside politics and beyond human language, as a tale of barbarism and unspeakable violence.

In Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Patrick Geggus sheds new light on this tremendous upheaval by marshaling an unprecedented range of evidence drawn from archival research in six countries.

Six volumes of his notebooks were also published, correspondence. FS Fitzgerald on the back of the title page of this book Butler wrote with his hand: "The most interesting human document of all available".

'Medical Revolutionaries' highlights how slave healers inspired the Haitian Revolution, toppled the slave system, and led to the loss of France's most productive New World economy.