Secret History; or, the Horrors of St. Domingo / In a Series of Letters, Written by a Lady at Cape Francois, to Colonel Burr, Late Vice-President of the United States, Principally During the Command of General Rochambeu

An epistolary collection of letters from a woman living at Cape François recounts daily life, social rivalries, and escalating violence on a Caribbean colony during the slave uprising. The narrator blends intimate depictions of domestic tensions, salon society, and military patronage with eyewitness reports of brigand attacks, murders, and defensive skirmishes. These letters trace the precariousness of planter and refugee existence, the strain on personal relationships under political pressure, and the collapse of the colonial order, examining displacement, insecurity, and the human costs of revolutionary upheaval.