A wiki-project compiling information on the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint L'Ouverture: "The mission of The Louverture Project is to collect as much information as possible about the Haitian revolution, to construct a narrative which provides context for that information, and to disseminate the collected knowledge as widely as possible." Explore: TLP:Community Portal - TLP
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DIGITAL/SOURCE: Early Accounts of Bois Caïman | The Black Atlantic
A list of accounts of the Bois Caïman ceremony, compiled by Ian Baucom and Laurent Dubois at Duke University for their course "The Black Atlantic." Read: Early Accounts of Bois Caïman « The Black Atlantic
BOOK: Nessler on Haitian Revolution and Santo Domingo
Graham T. Nessler, An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom: Revolution, Emancipation, and Reenslavement in Hispaniola, 1789-1809 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016). "Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish … Continue reading BOOK: Nessler on Haitian Revolution and Santo Domingo
AUDIO: Flory, Regent, and Chivallon on Enslaved Resistance and Revolt
Céline Flory, Frédéric Regent, and Christine Chivallon discuss slave revolts and resistance with Emmanuel Laurentin. Listen: Esclavage : les révoltes et les résistances
BLOGROLL/SOURCE: Paul Clammer on Twitter on Belley and Free Black Women of Saint-Domingue
Paul Clammer recently tweeted: "V moved by this find, via @ANOM_officiel, of the presence of Jean-Baptiste Belley, once enslaved & later delegate to the French revolutionary National Convention, at funeral of a free black woman in Saint-Domingue in 1788. #Haiti #SlaveryArchive...Two weeks after attending the funeral of 70yr old Elizabeth Angelique, Belley returns for the … Continue reading BLOGROLL/SOURCE: Paul Clammer on Twitter on Belley and Free Black Women of Saint-Domingue
BLOGROLL: Cotard and Dubois Create Comic on Haitian Revolution
Shared on Repeating Islands from a tweet by Kaiama L. Glover: "This item, posted by Kaiama L. Glover on Twitter yesterday (mèsi anpil!), comes in just in time for our discussion of Alejo Carpentier’s El reino de este mundo [The Kingdom of This World] this week. A brief historical-comic by Rocky Cotard and Laurent Dubois—The … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Cotard and Dubois Create Comic on Haitian Revolution
BOOK: Semley on Citizenship in the French Atlantic
Lorelle Semley, To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2017. via Cambridge U Press: The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a … Continue reading BOOK: Semley on Citizenship in the French Atlantic
SOURCE/DIGITAL: Issue 3.0 of A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789
A Colony in Crisis... "...is designed to provide online access to both the French originals and the English translations of key primary sources dealing with the grain shortage faced by the colony of Saint-Domingue in 1789, which are found under the Translations menu. Alongside the French original, each translation is presented with a brief historical introduction … Continue reading SOURCE/DIGITAL: Issue 3.0 of A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789
Dubois on Why Haiti Should be at the Center of the Age of Revolution | Aeon
Laurent Dubois on Aeon on the Haitian Revolution and writing Atlantic History: "That is notably true when we think about how to write the history of slavery, and more particularly of the enslaved themselves and how they experienced, viewed and, at times, rebelled against the institution. The Atlantic was the site of one of the … Continue reading Dubois on Why Haiti Should be at the Center of the Age of Revolution | Aeon
Goldthree Interviews Gaffield on Haiti and the Atlantic World | @AAIHS
At AAIHS, Reena Goldthree interviews Julia Gaffield on her new book Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: "Reena Goldthree (RG): Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World chronicles how Haitian officials constructed diplomatic, commercial, and military ties with foreign governments and merchants in the early nineteenth century. Your book joins a remarkably rich body of scholarship … Continue reading Goldthree Interviews Gaffield on Haiti and the Atlantic World | @AAIHS
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