Product Description: In January 1804, the once wealthy colony of Saint-Domingue declared its independence from France and adopted the Amerindian name ""Haiti."" Independence was the outcome of the extraordinary uprising of the colony's slaves. Although a central event in the history of the French in the New World, the full significance of the revolution has yet to be realized...read more

Product Description: The problems of moral philosophy were a central preoccupation of literate people in eighteenth-century America and Britain. It is not surprising, then, that Jonathan Edwards was drawn into a colloquy with some of the major ethicists of the age...read more