Haiti:  Revolutionary War 
1791 - 1803

• Chronology of Some Important Dates concerning the Haitian Revolution
  
  
• Bob Corbett's Four-Part Essay on the Haitian Revolution:
  • Part One
  • Part Two
  • Part Three
  • Part Four
  
  
• Bibliography of Works on The Haitian Revolution  All of these works are from my own library. I would like to hear about sources I am missing. This is an older bibliography from 1991, so I may well have newer sources which are missing from my own list but are in my library.
  
  
• Napoleon's Secret Instructions to General Leclerc.  First English translation of this important document.
  
  
• The History of Toussaint Louverture by M.D. Stephens, 1803 history of Toussaint's life.
  
  
• Toussaint L'Overature: A Biography and Autobiography by John Beard   An 1863 book on Toussaint. This is on the library site of the University of North Carolina
  
  
• Gillespie's,   PAPA TOUSSAINT  is On-line
  
  
• Toussaint Takes Spanish St. Domingo for France  1801 Newspaper story from U.S. paper
  
  
• The Last Days of Toussaint.  John Bigelow's account of his visit to Fort de Joux and the death of Toussaint.
  
  
• The Bwa Caiman Service of August 1791.   Some discussion of whether or not this ceremony ever actually took place, and a laying to rest the view that it was somehow a dedication of Haiti to evil spirits or the devil or Satan as some Christian missionaries have maintained.
  
  
• Corbett's Notes on Korngold's Book, CITIZEN TOUSSAINT
  
  
• Corbett's Notes for Paper on Napolean Plot Theory
  
  
• Notes on Jean Kina
  
  
• Notes on the Civil Commissions from France
  
  
• Notes on Toussaint Louverture
  
  
• Origins of the Term Maroon
  
  
• Pachonski's, POLAND'S CARIBBEAN TRAGEDY
  
  
• Simone De Beauvoir on the Haitian Revolution
  
  
• Some Notes from Waxman Book on Revolutions
  
  
• Some Notes on Andre Rigaud
  
  
• Notes on Stein's, LEGER FELICITE SONTHONAX
  
  
• The "White-Leader" Plot Theory of the Origin of the Revolution
  
  
• The Battle of Vertieres Goes On 1936 speech given by Louis Mercier urging Haitians to remember the meaning of Vertieres
  
  
• U.S. Presidents During the Early Years of Haiti
  
  
• What Factors Accounted for Haitian Victory?
  
  
• The Haitian Revolution: A Guide and Bibliography  A page created by Joanne Spadaro of University of Albany, SUNY.
  
  
• Wordsworth Sonnet to Toussaint L'ouverture
  
  
• Name change from St. Domingo (San Domingue) to Hayti
  
  
• History of Les Gens De Couleur Libre...The Free People of Color in New Orleans....today, known as Creoles    While this history is mainly about New orleans, it has interesting relations to the situation in San Domingue.
  
  
• Various book reviews which are relevant to the Haitian Revolution:
  • Bell, Madison Smartt
    
    • All Souls' Rising
    • Master of the Crossroad

  • Fick, Carolyn
    The Making of Haiti

  • Gillespie, C. Richard.
    Papa Toussaint

  • Hassal, Mary
    Secret History

  • Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas
    Toussaint L'Ouverture

  • Howard, Thomas Phipps
    Haitian Journal 1796-98

  • Pachonski, Jan and
        Wilson, Reuel K.
    Poland's Caribbean Tragedy

  • Stein, Robert Louis
    Leger Felicite Sonthonax

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