Mon Odyssée

A creole witness narrative in prose and verse by an anonymous Saint-Domingue creole educated in France who returned to the colony just before the August 1791 uprising and passed through insurgency, urban war, refugee exile in the United States, return, and renewed displacement. The most literary eyewitness source in the Haitian Revolution archive, it preserves vivid first-person descriptions of the opening insurrection and Cap-François, including the famous passage about a captured insurgent carrying Rights of Man pamphlets, tinder, and a protective amulet — one of the strongest symbolic condensations in the archive of revolutionary synthesis under colonial eyes.