List of Books

Books relating to Haiti and Haitian history. Includes some books on topics which intersect with Haitian history, such as the Louisiana Purchase and French Revolutionary history.

Also be sure to see the Haiti-related Amazon.com booklists from Stephen Jones and Charles Arthur. These booklists have a general selection of material for the novice student of Haiti.

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Biographies

 * The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements by William Wells Brown 1863, 1968
 * Black liberator;: The life of Toussaint Louverture, by Jacques Stéphen Alexis, 1949. ASIN B0006AS73Q
 * The Black Napoleon: The Story of Toussaint Louverture, by Waxman, Percy, 1931. ISBN 1127254308
 * Christophe, King of Haiti, by Hubert Cole, 1970.  ISBN 0670002801
 * Citizen Toussaint, by Ralph Korngold, 1944. ISBN 0313207941
 * Leger Felicite Sonthonax: The Lost Sentinel of the Republic, by Robert Stein, 1985. ISBN 0838632181
 * Retrospections Of An Active Life, John Bigelow, 1909. (Part 1: ISBN 1417913363; Part 2: ISBN 1417913371; Part 3: ISBN 141791338X)
 * This Gilded African, by Wenda Parkinson, 1978. ISBN 0704333074
 * The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture The Negro Patriot of Hayti by John Relly Beard. 1853. Online edition ISBN 1587420104
 * Toussaint Louverture, by Aime Cesaire, 2000.  ISBN 2708703978
 * Toussaint Louverture, by Pierre Pluchon, 1989. ISBN 2213023387
 * Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography, by John Relly Beard. 1863. Online edition
 * Toussaint L'ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom, by Walter Dean Myers, Jacob Lawrence (Illustrator), 1996. ISBN 0689801262
 * Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, by Madison Smartt Bell, 2007. ISBN 0375423370

Historiography

 * Silencing the Past, by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1997.  ISBN 0807043117

History, America & France

 * History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison, by Henry Adams (Midway Reprints Series, 1979) ISBN 0226005127 Online edition
 * Orders From France, by Roger G. Kennedy, 1989. ISBN 1584321385

History, America & Haiti

 * Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean, by Alfred N. Hunt, 1988.  ISBN 0807113700
 * Let Haiti Live: Unjust U.S. Policies Toward Its Oldest Neighbor, by Matt Cyr, Melinda Miles, Eugenia Charles, 2004.  ISBN 1584321385

History, Revolutionary

 * Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, by Laurent Dubois, 2004. ISBN 0674013042
 * Le Pont Rouge, by Jean Métellus, 1991 (in french) ASIN 2879310121
 * The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, by C.L.R. James, 1989. ISBN 0679724672
 * Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue, by Stewart R. King, 2001. ISBN 0820322334
 * Haitian Revolutionary Studies. by David Patrick Geggus, 2002. ISBN 0253341043
 * An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: Comprehending a View of the Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint-Domingo; with its Ancient and Modern State, by Marcus Rainsford, London, 1805
 * The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World), by David P. Geggus, 2002. ISBN 1570034168
 * The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below, by Carolyn E. Fick, 1990. ISBN 0870496670
 * Night of Fire: The Black Napoleon and the Battle of Haiti, by Martin Ros, 1994. ISBN 0962761370
 * Histoire de l'expédition des Français à Saint-Domingue sous le consulat de Napoléon Bonaparte by Isaac Louverture and Antoine Métral. (1825). Paris: Fanjat Ainé. Available online (Google Books). (French text)

History, Haiti General

 * Black Democracy: The Story of Haiti, by H.P. Davis, 1928. ASIN: B0006D8KAI
 * From Dessalines to Duvalier by David Nicholls (1996). ISBN 0813522390
 * Haiti: A Slave Revolution: 200 Years After 1804, Pat Chin, Greg Dunkel, Sara Flounders, and Kim Ives, comp. and ed., 2004. ISBN 097475210X
 * The Haiti Files - Decoding the Crisis, edited by James Ridgeway, 1994, ISBN 0962125970
 * Haiti, History, and the Gods, by Joan Dayan, 1998. ISBN 0520213688
 * Secret history, written by a lady at Cape Francois to Colonel Burr, by Leonora Sansay, Mary Hassal, 1808 (reprinted 1971). ISBN 0836988329
 * The Uses of Haiti, by Paul Farmer, 2005. ISBN 1567513441
 * Written In Blood, Robert Debs Heinl, Jr; Nancy Gordon Heinl; & Michael Heinl (Rev. & Exp), 1996. ISBN 0761802304
 * Paradise Lost:Haiti's tumultuous Journey from Pearl of the Caribbean to Third World hot spot, by Philippe R. Girard, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan; ISBN 1-4039-6887-X

History, Louisiana Purchase

 * The Great Acquisition: An Introduction to the Louisiana Purchase, by Peter J. Kastor, 2003. ISBN 1883844053
 * A Wilderness So Immense : The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America, by Jon Kukla, 2004.  ISBN 0375707611

Race and Race Theory

 * The Origin of Races and Color by Martin R. Delany

Novels, Haitian Revolution

 * A Dance on the Volcano b Marie Chauvet, 1968
 * All Souls' Rising, by Madison Smartt Bell, 1995. ISBN 0679439897
 * The Black Napoleon: Toussaint L'Ouverture Liberator of Haiti, by James Jess Hannon, 2000. ISBN 1585006297
 * Black Triumvirate; a novel of Haiti, by Benjamin H Levin, 1972. ISBN 0806502681
 * Blake; Or, The Huts of America by Martin R. Delany 1970
 * Bug-Jargal, by Victor Hugo, Paris: Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1925.
 * General Sun, my brother by Jacques Stéphen Alexis and Carrol F. Coates, 1999 ISBN 0813918898
 * L'Année Dessalines, by Jean Métellus, 1986, (French language) ISBN 2070707903
 * Les Cacos by Jean Métellus 1989, (French language ISBN 2070715949
 * Master of the Crossroads, by Madison Smartt Bell, 2002. ISBN 0375420568
 * Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, by Frederick Douglas, 1845 NY: Dover 1995.
 * Papa Toussaint, by C. Richard Gillespie, 1998. Online edition (html) ISBN 1583481249
 * The Stone That the Builder Refused, by Madison Smartt Bell, 2004, ISBN 037542282X
 * Toussaint Louverture le précurseur, by Jean Métellus, (French language) 2003, ASIN 2841095134

Novels, Slavery & Carribbean

 * Cambridge, by Caryl Phillips, 2001.  ISBN 0571204074
 * The Kingdom of This World, by Alejo Carpentier, 1949 ISBN 0374521972
 * Black Haiti: A Biography of Africa's eldest Daughter, by Blair Niles and Robert Niles, first published 1926 by Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, New York, reprinted by Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1428605304
 * Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance, by Beverly Bell, 2001 - Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-8748-X

Photography

 * Dancing on Fire - Photographs from Haiti, by Maggie Steber, 1991. ISBN 0893814970
 * Haiti, by Bruce Gilden, 1996. ISBN 3894661674
 * Haiti: Feeding the Spirit, Aperture, 1992. ISBN 0893815020

Plays

 * Anacaona, by Jean Métellus, 2002. ISBN 2747301893
 * The Tragedy of King Christophe : a play by Aimé Césaire

Poetry

 * The Collected Poetry by Aimé Césaire
 * "Toussaint L'Ouverture" poem by John Greenleaf Whittier found in various compilations.

Slavery and Revolution in the Caribbean

 * The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823, by David Brion Davis, 1999.  ISBN 0195126718
 * Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party by Martin R. Delany

Travel

 * Dominican Republic and Haiti by Scott Doggett & Leah Gordon, 1999. ISBN 086442647X
 * Haiti In Focus, by Charles Arthur, 2002. ISBN 1566563593