Rediscover Blair Niles’ breakthrough work - Black Haiti - which tells the moving, incredible story of the largest slave revolt in history led by Toussaint Louverture -- a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louverture first fought against the French, then for them, and then finally against France again for the cause of Haitian independence. This moving account - part history lesson of the revolution, part travel-diary from Ms. Niles’ 1925 trip to the island nation – and rediscover the mid-century growth and turmoil of what would go on to become modern Haiti. About the Author: Blair Niles (1880–1959) was an American novelist and travel writer. She was a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers. In 1923, she published Casual Wanderings in Ecuador . Colombia: Land of Miracles followed in 1924, and Peruvian Pageant in 1937. She developed a new approach to writing travel books, which she called "the human travel book" in which she linked contemporary culture with the past by exploring history, traditions, and legends.