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Cover page of the Vintage edition of The Black Jacobins.
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Contents
- 1 Biographies
- 2 Historiography
- 3 History, America & France
- 4 History, America & Haiti
- 5 History, Revolutionary
- 6 History, Haiti General
- 7 History, Louisiana Purchase
- 8 Race and Race Theory
- 9 Novels, Haitian Revolution
- 10 Novels, Slavery & Carribbean
- 11 Photography
- 12 Plays
- 13 Poetry
- 14 Slavery and Revolution in the Caribbean
- 15 Travel
- 16 See also
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
See also
Category:Books - Books cited in The Louverture Project.