BIBLIOgraphy on The Haitian Revolution

By Bob Corbett, 25 June 1995

Below is a bibiography of works which I have consulted in my work on The Haitian Revolution.

Any of the works that have: BIBLIO ENTRY + a number are in my library. If they don't have a number I would LOVE to get copies of them.

Please note that for some of these works I have put notes. If you are familiar with any of the others and wish to add notes which I can add to my library file it will help anyone who uses my data base program in the future. Just sent your comments to Bob Corbett bcorbett@crl.crl.com

Thanks, Bob Corbett
June 25, 1995

BIBLIO ENTRY # 41

Title: The Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804

Author: Ott, Thomas O.

1973

Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville

Ott's book is a good source of newspaper articles in America

see p. 171. Ott on Toussaint's scheming in retirement

p. 178 first use of a gas chamber????

BIBLIO ENTRY # 39

Title: Sketches of Hayti

Author: Harvey, W.W.

1970

Publisher: Negro Univ. Press, Westport, Conn.

Notes: Reprint of 1827 original published in London.

BIBLIO ENTRY # 40

Title: Haiti: The Politics of Squalor

Author: Rotberg, Robert I with Christopher K. Clague

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Boston, 1971

BIBLIO ENTRY # 45

Title: Written in Blood: Story of the Haitian People 1492-1971

Author: Heinl, Robert Debs and Nancy Gordon Heinl

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company 1978 Boston

Long rather uninformative treatment of Voodoo, p. 669-690

P. 180 of TAft A Puritan in Voodoo Land. She uses the phrase written in blood

P. 2 of Lawless (Haiti's Bad Press) negative criticism, points out actually little blood in Haiti's history.

BIBLIO ENTRY # 89

Title: Black Separatism and the Caribbean, 1860

Author: Holly, James & J. Dennis Harris

1970

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.

Corbett wrote a review of this book

BIBLIO ENTRY # 120

Author: Roberts, Kenneth

Title: LYDIA BAILEY

1947

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, INC, NY

This is a romantic novel which starts in the U.S., travels to Haiti. Perhaps 35 to 40% of the book is about their life in Haiti in 1802. The is quite good about Haiti against the French. Pushes the thesis that Leclerc and troops were going to invade U.S. after they took Haiti. Concerns the Louisiana territory too. After this they end up in Tunis with Barbary pirates. It must have been an Errol Flynn type movie!

Film Lydia Bailey A 1950s film about Haiti.
This is available on 16 mm. from firm in Chicago. Not available on video.

BIBLIO ENTRY # 260

Title: The Black Consul

Author: Vinogradov, Anatolii

1935

Publisher: Viking Press, New York

BIBLIO ENTRY # 186

JESSE, F. Tennyson

MOONRAKER OR THE FEMALE PIRATE AND HER FRIENDS

1927

Pub/Period: William Heinemann Ltd.

City/Volume: London

Notes: Annotation: Set in 1802, this horrible novel has a Frenchman returning hurriedly to Haiti to rescue Toussaint. The pirate captain who captures him is a woman in man's disguise...It so bad it's hard to believe! BC April, 1991.

BIBLIO ENTRY # 286

Title: The Black Napoleon

Author: Waxman, Percy

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company

Year/date: 1931

Annotation: A careful, readable, informative biography of Toussaint Louverature. Waxman relies heavily on Stoddard's THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN SAN DOMINGO, especially for his views of the French Commissioners. A very useful book. BC. June, 1990.

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 1 D

STEWARD, T. E.

THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION, 1791 TO 1804

1914

Pub/Period: Thomas Y. Crowell Co.

Notes: Chapter 12 from this book on Toussaint in prison is in Fold 1 D.

BIBLIO ENTRY # 68

VASTEY, Baron de

AN ESSAY ON THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION AND CIVIL WARS OF HAYTI

1969

Pub/Period: Negro Universities Press (reprint of 1823 book)

City/Volum: New York

BIBLIO ENTRY # 271

LEVIN, Benjamin

Title: BLACK TRIUMVIRATE

1972

Pub/Period: The Citadel Press

City/Volum: Seaucus, NJ,

BIBLIO ENTRY # 177

GLISSANT, EDOUARD

Monsieur Toussaint

1981

Pub/Period: Three Continents Press

City/Volum: Washington, DC

Notes: A play about Toussaint Louverture

BIBLIO ENTRY # 21

BELLEGARDE-SMITH, Patrick

HAITI:THE BREACHED CITADEL

1990

Pub/Period: Westview Press

City/Volum: Boulder, Col.

BIBLIO ENTRY # 22

Title: Voodoo and Politics

Author: Laguerre, Michel

Publisher: St. Martin's

Corbett wrote a review of this book

BIBLIO ENTRY

BEDFORD-JONES, Henry

DRUMS OF DAMBALA

1932

Pub/Period: Covici-Friede Publishers

City/Volum: New York

Notes: Annotation: A novel set in 1790s revolution. A Haiti born American attempts to recover his estate and find his lost brother. Rather predictable, but an interesting story to read nonetheless. BC 3/1991

BIBLIO ENTRY # 114

Title: The Kingdom of this World

Author: Carpentier, Alejo

Publisher: The Limited Editions Club, 1987

Corbett wrote a review of this book

BIBLIO ENTRY # 119

Title: Drums of Destiny

Author: Bourne, Peter

Publisher: G.P. Putnams Sons, N.Y., 1947

Notes: Published in England under the titel Black Saga. The story of Haiti from 1789 until the fall of Henri Chritopher (1820).

Bourne is psud. for Bruce Graeme.

The central historical figure is Christophe. The central fictional character is an English physician to the king. Note: Heinl says on page 149 that Duncan Stewart was in fact Christophe's physician.

The edition I read says: This edition of Drums of Destiny is especially prepared for book club distribution with the approval of the Author.

BIBLIO ENTRY # 312 Fold 8

CHRISTOPHE, Henry and Thomas Clarkson

HENRY CHRISTOPHE AND THOMAS CLARKSON: A CORRESPONDENCE

Edited by Earl Leslie Griggs

1952

Pub/Period: U. of Cal. Press

City/Volum: Berkeley,

BIBLIO ENTRY # 90 L

ROBERTS, W. Adolphe

THE FRENCH IN THE WEST INDIES

1971

Pub/Period: Cooper Square Publishers (reprint of 1942 book)

City/Volum: New York

Notes: P. 132 incredible racist paragraph. On blacks who could do the work in Saint-Domingue.

p. 134. List of various colors of mulatto

BIBLIO ENTRY # 310

CHAUVET, Marie

DANCE ON THE VOLCANO

1959

Pub/Period: William Sloane Associates

City/Volum: New York

Notes: An interesting novel about two affranchaise mulattos who are in the theater. This novel is useful to get a picture of the interaction of whites and affranchaise, especially mulattos, on the eve of the revolution. Situated from about 1785-1791.

BIBLIO ENTRY # 303

ENDORE, Guy

BABOUK

1934

Pub/Period: The Vanguard Press, Inc.

City/Volum: New York

Annotation: This is not a novel in the normal sense. Babouk is not really a character in a novel, but a figure who illustrates various historical realities of the taking of slaves in Africa, the transport to Haiti, then life in Haiti leading up to participation in the 1791 revolution. BC 3/1991.

BIBLIO ENTRY # 289

RODMAN, Selden

THE REVOLUTIONISTS

1942

Pub/Period: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Inc.

City/Volum: New York

BIBLIO ENTRY # 47

FOUCHARD, Jean

THE HAITIAN MAROONS: LIBERTY OR DEATH

1972

Pub/Period: Edward W. Blyden Press. 1981 translation

City/Volum: New York (P.O. box 621 z:10027

Annotation: The primary cause of marroange was the desire for freedom. Fouchard documents this thesis with incredibly detailed accounts from contemporary newspapers. History in the tradition of Aries. Not much of a book to read, but a most important reference tool.

See Lawless. Haiti's Bad Press for Geggus' critique of Fouchard's book.

See Geggus, p. 106-107 footnote # 108.

BIBLIO ENTRY # Rare 8. 2 copies.

HAZARD, SAMUEL

Santo Domingo, Past and Present: With a Glance at Hayti

1873

Pub/Period: Harper & Brothers

City/Volum: New York

Heinl says this book is good on Soulouque.

BIBLIO ENTRY # 19

GARRETT, Mitchell Bennett

THE FRENCH COLONIAL QUESTION 1789-1791

1917

Pub/Period: Negro University Press. Reprinted 1970

City/Volum: New York

BIBLIO ENTRY Bind 61 O has most of the relevant text on Haiti

LEWIS, Gordon K. Lawy

MAIN CURRENTS IN CARIBBEAN THOUGHT

1983

Pub/Period: The Johns Hopkins University Press

City/Volum: Baltimore

de las Casas (good section on him)

BIBLIO ENTRY Rare 2

Title: An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island Of Saint Domingo...

Author: Edwards, Bryan

Publisher: John Stockdale

Year/date: 1797

City/Vol.: London

Notes: Waxman says: ...Bryan Edwards, distinguished British historian, who arrived in Cap Francois shortly after the initial revolt and while the Northern plain was still in flames, has left an impartial first-hand account. p. 36.

Stoddard says: The best account in English of events in San Domingo, especially down to the fall of Le Cap in 1793. An eye-witness of the negro insurrection of 1791. Valuable for the English viewpoint as well as a record of events.

BIBLIO ENTRY # 67

SANDERS, Prince

HAYTIAN PAPERS: A COLLECTION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

1969

Pub/Period: Negro University Press (from 1816 original)

City/Volum: Westport, CT.

BIBLIO ENTRY Rare 3

RAINSFORD, Marcus

AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE BLACK EMPIRE OF HAYTI COMPREHENDING A VIEW OF

1803

Pub/Period: James Cundee

City/Volum: London

BIBLIO ENTRY # Rare 4

DEWIMPFFEN, Baron. Francis Alexander Stanislau

A VOYAGE TO SAINT DOMINGO

1797

Pub/Period: Cadell, Junior and W. Davis

City/Volum: London

Notes: The publishing date MDCCCXVII (1857) is clearly wrong. It was published in 1797 (reverse the third C and the X, to get: DCCXCVII

BIBLIO ENTRY # 62

Title: The Haitian Journal of Lieutenant Howard, York Hussars,1796-98

Author: Howard, Thomas Phipps

Source: Roger Norman Buckley , editor

Publisher: University of Tennessee Press, 1985

see Heinl p. 71 on this book too.

Corbett wrote a review of this book

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 1 E

Title: The United States and Santo Domingo

Author: Treudley, Mary

Publisher: The Journal of Race Development

Year/date: 1916

City/Vol.: Vol. 7 # 1

Good section on Soulouque

A doctoral dissertation

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 1 F

CLARK, B.C.

A PLEA FOR HAITI WITH A GLANCE AT HER RELATIONS WITH FRANCE, ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES FOR THE LAST SIXTY YEARS

1853

Pub/Period: Eastburn's Press

City/Volum: Boston

BIBLIO ENTRY #82

Title: Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in Night of Revolution

Author: Kuser, John Dryden

Annotation A travelogue written in 1921 during the American occupation. This is a thoroughtly pro-occupation work. Kuser tries, in the way of a moderate of his day, to counsel moderation in the race question. Little learned about Haiti from this book.

BIBLIO ENTRY C 17

SEAMAN, Augusta Huiell

THE CHARLEMONTE CREST

1945

Pub/Period: Doubleday Doran

City/Volum: Garden City, NY

Annotation: A Nancy Drew type mystery about two young American girls in Cap Haitien during the American Occupation. They trace the ancestory of one of the girls whose relatives were French planters. A fun book, suspensful and hard to put down. Along the way of the mystery a significant amount of history of The Haitian Revolution is told. A delightful youth book and fun for mystery-loving adults too. (BC, April, 1993)

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 1 B

HARDY, Charles Oscar

THE NEGRO QUESTION IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

1940

Pub/Period: George Banta Publishing Co.

City/Volum: Menasha, Wisc

Notes: Dissertation for University of Chicago Dept. of History

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 1 G (relevant chapter in folder)

BRADBY, E.D.

THE LIFE OF BARNAVE (2 volumes)

1915

Pub/Period: Clarendon Press

City/Volum: Oxford

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 19 Z

COOK, Mercer

FIVE FRENCH NEGRO AUTHORS

1943

Pub/Period: The Associated Publishers, Inc.

City/Volum: Washington, DC

We have only the chapter on Jules Raimond. The other four chapters are on non-Haitian black French Authors.

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 1 A

CHAZOTTE, Pierre Etienne

THE BLACK REBELLION IN HAITI

1927

Pub/Period: Privately Printed

City/Volum: Philadelphia

Notes: Originally written in 1804. Edited by Charles Platt, grandson of Pierre Etienne Chazotte.

A number of people think this is quite a good book, including Edna Taft and Robert Heinl. (See Heinl p. 127.)

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 26 T

ADAMS, Henry

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THOMAS JEFFERSON

1986

Pub/Period: The Library of America

City/Volum: New York

Notes: only relevant sections are in Fold 26 T

BIBLIO ENTRY # 88

Title: Slavery and the French Revolutionists (1788-1805)

Author: Cooper, Anna Julia

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Corbett wrote a review of this book

Notes: translated by Frances Richardson Keller

BIBLIO ENTRY C 15

SCHERMAN, Katherine

THE SLAVE WHO FREED HAITI

1954

Pub/Period: Random House

City/Volum: New York

BIBLIO ENTRY # 363

ANONYMOUS

MY ODYSSEY: EXPERIENCES OF A YOUNG REFUGEE FROM TWO REVOLUTIONS

1959

Pub/Period: Louisana State University Press

City/Volum: unknown

Notes: Book by: A Creole of Saint Domingue, originally published in French in 1798

BIBLIO ENTRY # 379

STEWARD, T.G.

THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION

1914

Pub/Period: THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY

City/Volum: NEW YORK

BIBLIO ENTRY Bind 64 L

STEIN, Robert

The State of French Colonial Commerce on the Eve of the Revolution

1983

Pub/Period: The Journal of European History

City/Volum: Vol. 12, 1983 , p. 105-107

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 16 V

STEIN, Robert

The Revolution of 1789 and the Abolition of Slavery

1982

Pub/Period: Canadian Journal of History.

City/Volum: Vol 17, Dec. 1982

On abolition: see Taft Puritan in Voodoo land she say the Wilberforce Society was very active in Haiti under a fellow named Corbett. p. 345

BIBLIO ENTRY Bind 64 O

STEIN, Robert

The Free Men of Colour and the Revolution in Saint Domingue, 1789-1792

1981

Pub/Period: Social History

City/Volum: Vol. 14 # 27, 1981, p. 7-28

BIBLIO ENTRY 68e

LOKKE, CARL LUDWIG

Plot to Abduct Toussaint Louverture's Children

unknown

Pub/Period: Journal of Negro History

City/Volum: unknown

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 1 I

MANIGAT, Leslie F.

The Relationship Between Marronage and Slave Revolts and Revolution...

1977

Pub/Period: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

City/Volum: Vol. 292

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 1 C

STEWARD, T.G.

How the Black St. Domingo Legion Saved the Patriot Army in the Seige of Savannah, 1779

1899

Pub/Period: The American Negro Academy

City/Volum: Occasional Papers # 5.

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 1 H

YANKEE SKIPPER ,

A Yankee Skipper in San Domingo, 1797

1797

Pub/Period: Massachusetts Historical Society

City/Volum: Vol. XLIX, 1916 pp. 268-273

BIBLIO ENTRY Bind 65 R

JAMES, C.L.R.

San Domingo.

1938

Pub/Period: in HISTORY OF NEGRO REVOLT

City/Volum: Secker and Warburg

Notes: only article in the book of interest to Haiti

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 26 Z

HAMILTON, Alexander

Correspondence

1799

Pub/Period: Works of Hamilton

City/Volum: New York

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 15 Z

JEFFERSON, Thomas

Writings of Thomas Jefferson on Haiti

1990

Pub/Period: Shonna Burchett put this together

City/Volum: From Jefferson's writings

BIBLIO ENTRY Bind 57 Z

MATTHEWSON, Timothy M.

George Washington's Poicy Toward The Haitian Revolution

1979

Pub/Period: Diplomatic History

City/Volum: Wilmington,Delaware

BIBLIO ENTRY BIND # 69 E

HICKEY, DONALD R.

America's Response to the Slave Revolt in Haiti

1982

Pub/Period: Journal of the Early Republic

City/Volum: Indianapolis

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 15 Y

HICKEY, Donald R.

TIMOTHY PICKERING AND THE HAITIAN SLAVE REVOLT: A LETTER TO THOMAS

1984

Pub/Period: Essex Institute Historical Collections

City/Volum: Vol. 120, No. 3

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 26 U

LOKKE, Carl Ludwig

Jefferson and the Leclerc Expedition

Jan 1928

Pub/Period: AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

City/Volum: XXXIII

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 9

DORSINVILLE, Max H.

Haiti and Its Institutions:From Colonial Times to 1957

1975

Pub/Period: in:The Haitian Potential:Rubin/Schaedel

City/Volum: see book in ptp library

BIBLIO ENTRY # 69 t

STEIN, ROBERT

The Abolition of Slavery in the North, West and South of St. Dominque

unknown

Pub/Period: Americas (1985)

City/Volum: North Hollywood, CA 41, #3: 47-55

BIBLIO ENTRY # 68 g

ALLEN, JOHN H

An Inside View of Revolutions in Haiti

1930

Pub/Period: Current History

BIBLIO ENTRY F # 22

LLOYD, ROBIN

BLACK DAWN

unknown

Pub/Period: Icarus Films

City/Volum: New York

Notes: An animated color film strip done by famous Haitian artists which tells the story of slave days and the Haitian revolution. An excellent film. See also study guide in Bind 51 J.

BIBLIO ENTRY

TAYLOR, James Gibson

DARK DAWN

1932

Pub/Period: The Mohawk Press

City/Volum: New York

Annotation: Set in 1791, this romance is the story of a recently arrived plantation owner from France who falls in love with a hot-blooded French woman, and they wonderously escape the night of the Aug. 21, 1791 uprising. A so-so story. Historically accurate for the most part. BC, April, 1991.

BIBLIO ENTRY

Title: The French Revolution in San Domingo

Author: Stoddard, Lothrop

1970

Publisher: Negro University Press, Westport, CT. (1914 orig)

Annotation: Detailed account, generally reliable, with a strong loyalist, white anti-black bias. Stoddard is particularly harsh to Sonthonax and rather hard on Toussaint. Quite worth consulting.

BIBLIO ENTRY

Title: An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Great Mortality Among the Troops at San Domingo

Author: Maclean, H.

Publisher: not given

Year/date: 1797

Annotation: The Author spent three years with the British troops. Some interesting analyses.

Available at these libraries:
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Nat'l Library of Medicine--Bethesda College of Physicians--Philadelphia

BIBLIO ENTRY # F 9

NEMOURS, General

TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE: FONDE A SAINT-DOMINGUE

1988

Pub/Period: Les Editions Fardin

City/Volum: Port-au-Prince

BIBLIO ENTRY Fold 26 W Corbett and Chicoineau 's translation

ROLOFF, Gustave

DIE KOLONIALPOLITIK NAPOLEONS I

1899

Pub/Period: Drug und Berlag von A. Didenbourg

City/Volum: Munich

Notes: The appendix to Roloff's book. Napoleon's instructions to Laclerc.

Fold 26 A

From Life and Correspondence

Correspondence between Rufus King and Col. Pickering

revolution fever

Why did slaves win? Davis (Passage)

argues that it was not fever.

--Europeans won in other third world areas

--Laclerc lost 10,000 men before the fever season

simply overwhelmed by numbers?

Davis says no. 18,000 men were most in slave army (Davis, 1977) Not in Davis: European wars. Major factor.

Generals

see Heinl p. 94. Excellent summary of generals used in book.