CONTENTS OF VOLUME I 



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Preface to the First Edition vii 



Preface to the Second Edition XU1 



Chronology xxxix 



Foreword and Postscript: Audubon and the Dauphin . . . lv 



CHAPTER I 



Introduction 



Audubon's growing fame — Experience in Paris in 1838 — Cuvier's patron- 

 age — -Audubon's publications — His critics — His talents and accom- 

 plishments — His Americanism arid honesty of purpose — His foibles 

 and faults — Appreciations and monuments — The Audubon Societies 

 — Biographies and autobiography — Robert Buchanan and the true 

 history of his Life of Audubon 1 



CHAPTER II 



Jean Audubon and His Family 



Extraordinary career of the naturalist's father — Wounded at fourteen 

 and prisoner of war for five years in England — Service in the 

 French merchant marine and navy — Voyages to Newfoundland and 

 Santo Domingo — His marriage in France — His sea fights, capture 

 and imprisonment in New York — His command at the Battle of 

 Yorktown — Service in America and encounters with British priva- 

 teers 24 



CHAPTER III 



Jean Audubon as Santo Domingo Planter and Merchant 



Captain Audubon at Les Cayes— As planter, sugar refiner, general 

 merchant and slave dealer, amasses a fortune — His return to 

 France with his children — History of the Santo Domingo revolt — 

 Baron de Wimpffen's experience— Revolution of the whites — Op- 

 position of the abolitionists — Effect of the Declaration of Rights 

 on the mulattoes — The General Assembly drafts a new constitution 

 — First blood drawn between revolutionists and loyalists at Port- 



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