Archives

CNRS Indemnités — Haiti 1825

28,356 records of Haiti's 1825 indemnity claimants from CNRS research

Marronnage — Fugitive Slave Advertisements

22,485 fugitive slave advertisements from colonial Saint-Domingue newspapers (1767–1848)

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

3,581 Saint-Domingue slave trade voyages from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Enslaved.org — Historical Persons Database

1,173 records of enslaved individuals from the Enslaved.org Linked Open Data platform

Affiches Américaines — Saint-Domingue

Histoires d'Haïti — Vastey, Madiou, Ardouin

Haitian historical works and scholarship from the Internet Archive

Moreau de Saint-Méry — Loix et Constitutions

Moreau de Saint-Méry's encyclopedic description of Saint-Domingue from the BnF

Documents Coloniaux Français — Saint-Domingue

Primary source documents from the French National Library on colonial Saint-Domingue

Actes Officiels de Saint-Domingue et d'Haïti

Historical documents from the BnF Gallica collection via IIIF image API

Island Luminous — Commentaires Savants

552 multilingual scholarly commentary pages from FIU's Island Luminous project

Le Moniteur Haïtien (1845–1983)

Complete run of Haiti's official government gazette via DLOC (1845–1983)

Le Moniteur Universel d'Haïti (1789–1810)

French revolutionary-era gazette covering colonial Haiti (1789–1810)

Le Moniteur Haïtien (1845–1872)

Haiti's official government gazette — laws, decrees, and state announcements (1845–1983)

La Gazette Royale d'Hayti (1807–1820)

Royal gazette of the Kingdom of Haiti under Henri Christophe (1807–1820)

Revue de la Société Haïtienne d'Histoire (1931–1935)

Revue de la Société Haïtienne d'Histoire et de Géographie — peer-reviewed scholarly journal (1931–1935)

L'Abeille Haytienne (1817–1820)

Literary and cultural journal of early independent Haiti (1817–1820)

Founders Online — U.S. Founding Era Documents

1,152 documents on Haiti/Saint-Domingue from U.S. founding era correspondence

Haiti DOI — Constitutions (1801–1889)

Full texts of Haiti's constitutions from 1801 (Toussaint) through 1889, including the 1805 Imperial Constitution

U.S. Senate Haiti Occupation Hearings (1920s)

Transcripts from the 1920s U.S. Senate inquiry into the military occupation of Haiti

Boisrond-Tonnerre — Mémoires pour l'histoire d'Haïti

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire d'Haïti (1804) by Louis Félix Boisrond-Tonnerre, drafter of Haiti's Declaration of Independence

Marlene L. Daut (ed.) — Haitian Revolutionary Fictions

Jeremy D. Popkin — You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution

Karen McCarthy Brown — Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn

John D. Garrigus — Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue

Mary A. Renda — Taking Haiti: Military Occupation

Stewart R. King — Blue Coat or Powdered Wig

Christopher L. Miller — The French Atlantic Triangle

Hans Schmidt — The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915–1934

Gabriel Debien — Les esclaves aux Antilles françaises

Mark Schuller — Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs

Robin Blackburn — The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery

Doris Lorraine Garraway — The Libertine Colony

Amy Wilentz — The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier

Terry Rey — The Priest and the Prophetess

David Patrick Geggus — The World of the Haitian Revolution

Jeremy D. Popkin — Facing Racial Revolution

J. Bènye Pyè — Papa Dòk Ak Tonton Makout Li Yo

Richard Price (ed.) — Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities

Sylviane A. Diouf — Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons

Carolyn E. Fick — The Making of Haiti

Elizabeth Abbott — Haiti: The Duvaliers and Their Legacy

Voodoo in Haiti (1959)

Crystal Nicole Eddins — Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution

Jean Fouchard — The Haitian Maroons: Liberty or Death

Jacques Stephen Alexis — Compère Général Soleil

Trevor Burnard & John Garrigus — The Plantation Machine

Jessica Marie Johnson — Wicked Flesh

Laurent Dubois — The Banjo: America's African Instrument

Wade Davis — The Serpent and the Rainbow

Laurent Dubois — Avengers of the New World

Marcus Rediker — The Slave Ship: A Human History

Jacques Stéphen Alexis — General Sun, My Brother

Jonathan M. Katz — The Big Truck That Went By

Mavis Christine Campbell — The Maroons of Jamaica, 1655–1796

Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith — In the Shadow of Powers: Dantès Bellegarde

Julia Gaffield — The Haitian Declaration of Independence

Matthew Smith — Red and Black in Haiti

Sowande' M. Mustakeem — Slavery at Sea

C.L.R. James — The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture

Paul Burton Cheney — Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery

Mimi Sheller — Democracy After Slavery

Stephanie E. Smallwood — Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage

Claudine Michel & Patrick Bellegarde-Smith (eds.) — Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture

Alex Dupuy — Haiti in the World Economy

Claudine Michel & Patrick Bellegarde-Smith — Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture

Moreau de Saint-Méry — A Civilization That Perished

David Eltis & David Richardson — Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Suzy Castor — L'Occupation américaine d'Haïti

Bernard Moitt — Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848

Marisa J. Fuentes — Dispossessed Lives

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall — Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas

Leslie Gérald Desmangles — The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism

Richard Price — First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People

Frederick Douglass — Haiti Correspondence & Speeches

Correspondence and speeches by Frederick Douglass during his tenure as U.S. Minister to Haiti

Jeremy D. Popkin — A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution

Carmichael & Hamilton — Black Power: The Politics of Liberation

Yanick Lahens — Bain de lune

Mimerose P. Beaubrun — Nan Dòmi: An Initiate's Journey into Haitian Voudou

Zora Neale Hurston — Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

Michel-Rolph Trouillot — Silencing the Past

Jacques Roumain — Gouverneurs de la rosée

Milo Rigaud — Secrets of Voodoo

Eugene Genovese — From Rebellion to Revolution

Dany Laferrière — L'Odeur du café

Dantès Bellegarde — L'Occupation américaine d'Haïti

L'Occupation américaine d'Haïti et ses conséquences (1929) by Dantès Bellegarde

David Geggus — Slavery, War and Revolution

Dany Laferrière — How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired

Richard Lee Turits — A World Destroyed, A Nation Imposed

René Depestre — Un arc-en-ciel pour l'occident chrétien

Mapping the Haitian Revolution

17 structured events from the Mapping the Haitian Revolution timeline project

Fanm Rebèl — Publications

Scholarship on Haitian women's resistance and the role of women in the revolution and independence movements

Linstant de Pradine — Recueil général des lois haïtiennes

Recueil général des lois et actes du gouvernement d'Haïti — 4-volume compilation of Haitian laws (1804–1876)

John Carter Brown Library — Haiti Collection

IMF Article IV Consultations — Haiti

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Maya Deren — Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

Hérard Dumesle — Voyage dans le Nord d'Haïti