An early nineteenth-century pamphlet from the northern monarchy of Haiti.
Creator: Chevalier de Prézeau
Date of Creation: 1815
Place of origin: Cap-Henry, Haiti
Physical measurements: 41 p. 20 cm.
Materials: Paper
Process by which it was made: Print
Current location: Duke University Libraries
Further Reading
Baron de Vastey, The Colonial System Unveiled, trans. and ed. Chris Bongie (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014).
Doris L. Garraway, “Print, Publics, and the Scene of Universal Equality in the Kingdom of Henry Christophe,” L’Esprit Créateur 56, no. 1 (2016): 82–100.
Marlene Daut, Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
David Geggus, ed., The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2014).
Chelsea Stieber, Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954 (New York: New York University Press, 2020).
Information contributed by Chelsea Stieber.