Sources

Gallica — BnF

Digital library of the French National Library. Colonial records, historical works, and periodicals including Moreau de Saint-Mery's encyclopedic description of Saint-Domingue.

31+ documents · 1492–1850

Internet Archive

Open digital library providing access to historical texts and documents on Haiti and Saint-Domingue.

22+ documents

Digital Library of the Caribbean (DLOC)

Cooperative digital library for Caribbean materials — newspapers, archives, and periodicals spanning colonial and post-independence eras.

9,000+ issues · 1845–1983

HaitiDOI

Digital repository of Haitian constitutional and foundational documents — declarations of independence, constitutions, and proclamations.

Key constitutional documents · 1801–1889

Island Luminous

FIU educational project on Haitian history with multilingual scholarly commentary.

552 pages · 3 languages

SlaveVoyages

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database documenting voyages and enslaved individuals. Records now include decoded place names for Caribbean ports.

3,581 Saint-Domingue voyages

CNRS Indemnités

Database of Haiti's 1825 indemnity payments — records of every French claimant compensated under the double debt arrangement.

28,356 claimant records · 1825

Marronnage in Saint-Domingue

Fugitive slave advertisements from colonial Saint-Domingue newspapers — names, descriptions, origins, and enslaver records.

22,485 advertisements · 1767–1848

Enslaved.org

Linked Open Data platform aggregating records of enslaved individuals from multiple institutional databases.

1,173 Wikidata records

World Bank Open Data

Economic and development indicators for Haiti across six decades.

38,048 indicators · 1960–2026

NYT Haiti Double Debt

Historical data on Haiti's debt payments to France published by the New York Times investigative project.

Financial records · 1825–present

Le Moniteur Haïtien

Official gazette of Haiti — government announcements, legal notices, and historical records spanning nearly 140 years.

9,411 issues · 1845–1983

Le Moniteur Universel d'Haïti

French revolutionary period gazette with colonial reports on Saint-Domingue.

5,076 issues · 1789–1810

L'Abeille Haytienne

Literary and cultural journal of early independent Haiti — one of the first periodicals of the new republic.

33 issues · 1817–1820

La Gazette Royale

Royal gazette from the Kingdom of Haiti under Henri Christophe.

50 issues · 1807–1820

RSHHGG

Revue de la Societe Haitienne d'Histoire et de Geographie — peer-reviewed scholarly journal on Haitian history.

8 issues · 1931–1935

Boisrond-Tonnerre

Memoires pour servir a l'histoire d'Haiti (1804) — written by Louis Felix Boisrond-Tonnerre, drafter of Haiti's Declaration of Independence.

1 work

Founders Online

Correspondence and papers of U.S. founding fathers regarding Haiti and Saint-Domingue.

1,152 documents

US Senate Haiti Hearings

1920s congressional inquiry transcripts from the investigation into the U.S. military occupation of Haiti.

9 hearing transcripts

Library of Congress — Kreyòl Proclamation

1793 Kreyol emancipation proclamation by Sonthonax — one of the earliest documents in written Haitian Creole.

1 document · 1793

Linstant de Pradine

Recueil general des lois et actes du gouvernement d'Haiti — comprehensive 4-volume compilation of Haitian laws from 1804 to 1876.

4 volumes · 1804–1876

Haitian Legal Codes

Historical legal codes of Haiti — Code Rural, Code Civil, Code Penal, and foundational constitutions.

9 codes

HaitiDOI — Constitutions

Full text of Haiti's constitutions from 1801 (Toussaint) through 1889, including the 1805 Imperial Constitution and 1816 Petion constitution.

Constitutional texts · 1801–1889

Dantès Bellegarde

L'Occupation americaine d'Haiti et ses consequences (1929) — critical analysis by Haitian diplomat and historian.

1 work

Joseph Saint-Rémy

Historical works on Toussaint Louverture and Haitian independence from the 19th-century Haitian historian.

4 works

Frederick Douglass

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

28 documents

Human Rights Watch

Contemporary human rights documentation and political analysis on Haiti.

18 reports · 1993–2025

Mapping Haitian Revolution

Structured timeline and geographic event data from the Mapping the Haitian Revolution scholarly project.

17 events · 1492–1850+

Fanm Rebel — Haitian Women's Resistance

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

1 work

Scholarly Monographs

80+ academic works on Haitian history, the revolution, slavery, vodou, and the diaspora — C.L.R. James, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Laurent Dubois, Carolyn Fick, and more. Browsable individually via the Archives.

80+ works