_CONTENTS OF VOLUME I 
PREFACE Moye iat) Mw) welt) cei sve tel) ok eh rs eet ie ee envi 
CHRONOLOGY . . - ° : A # 4 oO Bae pes? 
CHAPTER I 
IntRopucTION 
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 dudwbon. . . . «. «. « « « 1 
CHAPTER II 
Jean AupuBON anv His Famity 
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- 
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CHAPTER III 
Jean AvpuBoNn as Santo Dominco PLANTER anD MErcuanT 
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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