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

• Black liberator;: The life of Toussaint Louverture, by 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.
• 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 Louverture, by Pierre Pluchon, 1989. ISBN 2213023387
• 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, 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Night of Fire: The Black Napoleon and the Battle of Haiti, by Martin Ros, 1994. ISBN 0962761370

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.
• Secret history, written by a lady at Cape Francois to Colonel Burr, by Leonora Sansay, Mary Hassal, 1808 (reprinted 1971). ISBN 0836988329
• Written In Blood,Robert Debs Heinl, Jr; Nancy Gordon Heinl; & Michael Heinl (Rev. & Exp), 1996.

History, Louisiana Purchase

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

Novels, Haitian Revolution

• 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

Novels, Slavery & Carribbean

• Cambridge, by Caryl Phillips, 2001. ISBN 0571204074

Slavery and Revolution in the Carribbean

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

Travel

• Haiti In Focus, by Charles Arthur, 2004.