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.

Biographies

• Citizen Toussaint, by Ralph Korngold, 1944.
• Leger Felicite Sonthonax: The Lost Sentinel of the Republic, by Robert Stein, 1985. ISBN 0838632181
• Retrospections Of An Active Life, John Bigelow, 1909.
• This Gilded African, by Wenda Parkinson, 1978.
• Toussaint Louverture, by Aime Cesaire, 2000. ISBN 2708703978
• Toussaint L'ouverture : The Fight for Haiti's Freedom, by Walter Dean Myers, Jacob Lawrence (Illustrator), 1996. ISBN 0689801262.

Historiography

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

History, Revolutionary

• Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, by Laurent Dubois, 2004.
• The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, by C.L.R. James, 1989.
• Haitian Revolutionary Studies. by David Patrick Geggus, 2002.
• 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.

History, Haiti General

• Black Democracy: The Story of Haiti, by H.P. Davis, 1928.
• Haiti: A Slave Revolution: 200 Years After 1804, Pat Chin, Greg Dunkel, Sara Flounders, and Kim Ives, comp. and ed., 2004.
• Haiti, History, and the Gods, by Joan Dayan, 1998.
• Written In Blood,Robert Debs Heinl, Jr; Nancy Gordon Heinl; & Michael Heinl (Rev. & Exp), 1996.

History, America & France

• Orders From France, by Roger G. Kennedy, 1989.

Slavery and Revolution in the Carribbean

• The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823, by David Brion Davis, 1999. ISBN 0195126718

History, Louisiana Purchase

• The Great Acquisition: An Introduction to the Louisiana Purchase, by Peter J. Kastor, 2003.

Travel

• Haiti In Focus, by Charles Arthur, 2004.