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In 1802, New York merchant and plantation owner, Louis Sainz, returned to the island previously known as San Doming, where he was determined to reclaim, in quotes, the plantation that he had lost, in quotes.

Two years earlier, in the first days of what he probably would have called the Sandomeng revolt.

Okay.

Confident that that little slave revolt on the French colony island was wrapping up and about to be permanently quashed.

Okay. I was thinking, Sandomang, why do I know that?

He strolled confidently in, ready to reclaim his place at the top of society.

Okay.

He brought with him his new wife, Leonora,

who would be an eyewitness to and would document,

kind of, in writing,

one of the most fascinating and, in my opinion, under-discussed events in Caribbean history,

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