Constitution of Haiti - Milestone Documents

Constitution of Haiti

( 1801 )

Further Reading

Books

  • Bell, Madison Smartt. Toussaint Louverture: A Biography. New York: Pantheon, 2007.
  • Dubois, Laurent, and John D. Garrigus. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789–1804: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2006.
  • DuPuy, Alex. Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment since 1700. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989.
  • Hochschild, Adam. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
  • Hunt, Alfred N. Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
  • Ott, Thomas. The Haitian Revolution: 1789–1804. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973.
  • Rodriguez, Junius P., ed. Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2007.
  • Ros, Martin. Night of Fire: The Black Napoleon and the Battle for Haiti. Kent, U.K.: Spellmount Publishers, 1994.
  • Toussaint L'Ouverture. The Haitian Revolution, ed. Nick Nesbitt. New York: Verso, 2008.
  • Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

Web Sites

  • Asté, Patricia. “Égalité for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution.” Public Broadcasting Service Web site. http://www.pbs.org/egaliteforall.
  • Beard, J. R. Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Documenting the American South” Web site. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/beard63/beard63.html.
  • The Louverture Project Web site. http://thelouvertureproject.org/index.php?title=Main_Page.
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