1854 EX-SLAVE IN NEW YORK. Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Haitian Slave to New York Hairdresser. Fine Binding but the aggregate of the

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1854 EX-SLAVE IN NEW YORK. Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Haitian Slave to New York Hairdresser. Fine Binding but the aggregate of theVery desirable memoir of Pierre Toussaint (1766 1853), born a slave in St. Domingue (now Haiti.) He fled during the 1797 Haitian slave revolts and obtained a bonded apprenticeship in New York with one of the best hair dressers in the city. When his owner died in 1803, Toussaint took care of his widow, and took over the business and greatly expanded, becoming one of the first successful black businessmen in the city. He was a significant philanthropist