Resources
We would also recommend the following well-curated digital sites for teacher and student use, particularly for primary documents:
A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789 features primary French-language documents from the grain shortage with translations into English and Kreyòl by a large team of librarians, professors, and translators.
Haiti and the Atlantic World: Sources and Resources for Discussions about Haiti and Haitian History, by Julia Gaffield (especially regarding the Declaration of Independence).
Famn Rebel, by Dr. Nicole Willson and others, centers stories of women in the Haitian Revolution (expanding the scope from 1750-1850).
Fictions of the Haitian Revolution by Marlene Daut is a bibliographic companion to her book Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865.
Haiti: An Island Luminous from FIU and the Digital Library of the Caribbean in French, Krèyol, and English: “An Island Luminous combines rare books, manuscripts, and photos scanned by archives and libraries in Haiti and the United States with commentary by over one hundred (100) authors from universities around the world.”
The Haitian Atlantic: A Revolutionary Geography by Marlene Daut plots literary responses to the Haitian Revolution across the Atlantic, offering a visual geography and links to images, maps, and primary documents.
Haitian History Blog, a Tumblr Blog Dedicated to Haitian Political History—covers eras beyond the Haitian Revolution
La Gazette Royale d’Hayti: Early newspaper gazettes in Haiti are documented (in French) in Marlene Daut’s project
Marronage in Saint Domingue is a digital archive of Affiche Américaines’ fugitive slave notices. Currently only in French.
Excellent, related digital sites:
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Visualization by Matthew Burdumy and Professor Adam Rothman
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has now been reimagined as Slave Voyages, expanding into Intra-American trade, new maps, 3-D renderings, and more. Compiled by scholars around the world, it is now hosted by Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship.
P. Gabrielle Foreman, et al.’s “Writing about Slavery/Teaching About Slavery: This Might Help”
Great sites for further research (particularly for maps):
Digital Library of the Caribbean in English, French, and Spanish
John Garrigus’s Zotero site is a bibliographic, (mostly) Haiti-focused guide