Moreau de Saint-Méry — A Civilization That Perished: The Last Years of White Colonial Rule in Haiti (1797-1798 / trans. 1985) Source Information

Moreau de Saint-Méry — A Civilization That Perished: The Last Years of White Colonial Rule in Haiti (1797-1798 / trans. 1985) Source Information Author: Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry Original Work: Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie française de l'isle Saint-Domingue (1797-1798) Edition Used Here: A Civilization That Perished: The Last Years of White Colonial Rule in Haiti, translated and abridged by Ivor D. Spencer Year of Edition: 1985 Type: Primary source in translation — colonial description, administrative memorial, and white-creole ethnographic record Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Full Text: moreau civilization.txt Prior Extraction Note: moreau civilization extraction Status Text extracted: Yes — moreau civilization.txt Review pass: Completed (2026-03-27) — colonial urban/material-culture pass focused on Cap-Français, dress, market life, plantation layout, and the ideological staging of race Chapter notes: moreau civilization ch notes Graph review in this pass: Created tignon, marchandes, and cercle des philadelphes; strengthened cap francais, gens de couleur life, sumptuary laws, and the relevant MOCs Overview Moreau gives the vault one of its richest witnesses for late-colonial Saint-Domingue, but only if he is used against the grain.