As you’ve been doing all semester long for the rest of us, I wanted to give you some bibliography for the Haitian revolution as background to our discussion of Dubois, Avengers of the New World. We’ll talk about these books in class.
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Laurent Dubois, David Geggus, Jeremy Popkin, Sue Peabody, Madison Smartt Bell
The interview on WBAI New York can be heard here: the Dubois interview starts at about the 28 minute mark
Relatively new books on the Haitian Revolution
Bell, Madison. Toussaint Louverture. Vintage, 2008.
Dubois, Laurent. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. Chapel Hill N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
—. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Belknap Press, 2004.
Dubois, Laurent, and John D. Garrigus. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents. New York: Bedford St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
Fick, Carolyn E. The making of Haiti: the Saint Domingue revolution from below. University of Tennessee Press, 1990.
Gaspar, David Barry, and David Patrick Geggus. A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Geggus, David P. Haitian Revolutionary Studies. Indiana University Press, 2002.
Geggus, David P., ed. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Edited by David P. Geggus. University of South Carolina Press, 2001.
Garrigus, John D. Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in Saint-Domingue. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Popkin, Jeremy D. Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection. University Of Chicago Press, 2008.
Older work
Beard, John Reilly. The life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, the negro patriot of Hayti : comprising an account of the struggle for liberty in the island, and a sketch of its history to the present period. London: Ingram Cooke and Co., 1853.
James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. 2nd ed. New York: Vintage, 1963.
Ott, Thomas O. The Haitian Revolution: 1789-1804. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1970.
Stoddard, Lothrop. The French Revolution in San Domingo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914.
Literary trilogy, based on historical texts
Bell, Madison. All Souls’ Rising. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995.
—. Master of the Crossroads. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.
—. The Stone That the Builder Refused. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004.
Since I’m “forcing” you to use the Firefox browser in order to get to Zotero, you might want to try out the new Firefox toolbar that our librarians have developed. Our library catalog still doesn’t work with Zotero, but the toolbar can save you some time in launching different searches of the library catalog and databases.