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Captain Marcus Rainsford with a private soldier of the Black Army, 1805. A British Army officer, Rainsford was in Saint Domingue when the colony's slave population revolted and overthrew the French, establishing the independent nation of Haiti. Frontispiece print from An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti, Rainsford's account of the events, published in 1805.