CONTENTS OF VOLUME I 



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PREFACE . ... . . ......... vii 



CHRONOLOGY : xxv 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTION 



Audubon's growing fame Experience in Paris in 1828 Cuvier's patron- 

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

 plishments His Americanism and 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 04 



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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