Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / David Armitage and Julia Gaffield
  • Part 1. Writing the Declaration
  • Haiti's Declaration of Independence / David Geggus
  • "Victims of our own credulity and indulgence" : the life of Louis Felix Boisrond-Tonnerre / John Garrigus
  • The debate surrounding the printing of the Haitian Declaration of Independence : a review of the literature / Patrick Tardieu
  • Living by metaphor in the Haitian Declaration of Independence : tigers and cognitive theory / Deborah Jenson
  • Part 2. Haitian independence and the Atlantic
  • Law, Atlantic revolutionary exceptionalism, and the Haitian Declaration of Independence / Malick W. Ghachem
  • Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Norbert Thoret, and the violent aftermath of the Haitian Declaration of Independence / Jeremy D. Popkin
  • Dessalines' plan to export the Haitian Revolution? / Philippe Girard
  • Part 3. The legacy of the Haitian Declaration of Independence
  • "Outrages on the laws of nations" : American merchants and diplomacy after the Haitian Declaration of Independence / Julia Gaffield
  • The sovereign people of Haiti during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Jean Casimir
  • Thinking Haitian independence in Haitian Vodou / Laurent Dubois
  • Revolutionary commemorations : Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haitian Independence Day, 1804-1904 / Erin Zavitz
  • Appendix.