Also known as: Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
Last updated: April 16, 2026
The most useful single-volume narrative of the Haitian Revolution, combining narrative momentum with serious historiographical clarity by writing Saint-Domingue not as a colonial side story but as a central site in the making of the modern Atlantic world. Dubois insists the revolution cannot be reduced to a heroic leader story or a single explanatory key — it emerged from the interaction of plantation labor regimes, African continuities, free-colored politics, imperial war, and the renegotiation of what liberty would mean after slavery. Especially strong on the plantation as a site of insurgent knowledge, the August 1791 insurrection, the Bois Caïman ceremony, and Haiti's global afterlife.
Dubois's Avengers of the New World documents Victoria Montou's role in Dessalines's formation and her connection to the Dahomean martial tradition.
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Laurent Dubois. "Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution." Harvard University Press, 2004. Rasin.ai, https://rasin.ai/connections/sources/dubois-avengers. Accessed 2026-05-05.