Image: Cover of The Last Crusade and the Empire of Haiti, by Dr. Bruce E. Twyman, available from Africa World Press
Bruce E. Twyman, the author of The Black Seminole Legacy, and North American Politics, 1693 to 1845, has a new title release. The new book is, The Last Crusade and the Empire of Haiti. This book was inspired by
Twyman’s Black Seminole Legacy research. A key nexus between the Haitian Revolution
and the Black Seminole Wars, was the Haitian Maroon General George Biassou. Biassou
exited Haiti in 1795 and arrived in Florida with a small auxiliary force as
allies of the Spanish colonial government. Though Biassou would die in 1801, members of his band married into the broader Black Seminole community, and participated in the Patriots War of 1812. Even a
Superficial examination of Biassou leads directly to his subordinate officer in the beginning of the Revolution, Toussaint L’Overture.
