El epistolario de una alianza: las cartas de Jean-François Papillon, Georges Biassou y Toussaint Bréda a las autoridades de Santo Domingo (1791-1794)

Abstract

In the spring of 1793, Jean-Francois Papillon, Georges Biassou, and Toussaint Breda, leaders of the Haitian Revolution, started negotiations to join the Spanish colonial army in Santo Domingo. The generals’ correspondence evidences the conditions that favoured their inclusion into the Spanish colonial troops, and the existence of previous contacts between the former and the latter. The goal of this article is to study the content of the letters in order to identify the reasons of both parts of the alliance.