Also known as: Declaration of Independence copies, Surviving copies of the Declaration, Haitian Declaration of Independence — Surviving Copies
Last updated: April 16, 2026
Julia Gaffield's archival research identified four surviving textual witnesses to the Haitian Declaration of Independence: two official printed versions, a manuscript transcription, and a contemporary English translation. Until Gaffield's discovery in 2010 of the printed pamphlet in The National Archives (TNA), no official printed original was known to scholars — a remarkable silence given the document's world-historical significance. The catalog of surviving copies reveals the dispersal of the document across British, French, and American archives and the archival conditions that kept them invisible.
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