Haitian and Other Black Writers
1770-1814
1790: Julien Raimond
1793: Decree abolishing slavery in the North of Saint-Domingue - Original Haitian Creole text of the document by Sonthonax.
1793: Julien Raimond
1796: Lettre au directoire, Toussaint Louverture (4 Brumaire de l’an VI).
1804: Acte de l’indépendance, 1 janvier 1804 (Dessalines), à Gonaïves
1805: Constitution
Haïtienne
1805: Constitution of Haiti
1815-1830
1814: Henri Christophe
1814: Pompée-Valentin Vastey
1816: Pompée-Valentin Vastey
1817: Pompée-Valentin Vastey
- Réflexions sur quelques ouvrages et journaux
français conernant Hayti. 1817.
1818: Juste Chanlatte (1766-1828)
1819: Pompée-Valentin Vastey
- An Essay on the Causes of the
Revolution and Civil Wars in Hayti (1819). Transl W.H.M.B.
Exeter, 1823.
1824: Juste Chanlatte
1825: Jean-Baptiste Romane
1827-1828: Published by Gragnon-Lacoste; attributed to Isaac Louverture as collaborator or author
1827-1860: Feuille du commerce, petites affiches et annonces du Port-au-Prince
1828: Excerpt from the Gazette des tribunaux
1831-1848
Coriolan Ardouin [1818-1835]
1837: Victor Séjour
- "Le
Mulâtre." Originally published in the Revue
des colonies and reprinted in the Revue de Louisiane (1972).
Translated in the Norton Anthology of African American
Literature (1997).
- Video version
1836-1837: Revue des colonies
1841: Pierre Faubert (1806-1868)
1841: S. Linstant
1845: "Lettre
de Marie"
- A letter to the queen by a slave
named Marie published by Victor Schoelcher in Histoire
de l'esclavage pendant les deux dernières années as
part of his campaign for immediate emancipation of the slaves.
1845: Les
Cenelles
Texts in French from Louisiana
1849-1900
1849: D. Poléma (négresse de Martinique)
- "Appel
à mes frères d'outremer" (Paris. 27
février 1849). This short document was written at the
time of the emancipation of slaves in 1848. It appears to be
a call to rally behind Schoelcher in the elections.
1853-1860: Beaubrun Ardouin
1855: Emile Nau
1859: Emeric Bergeaud
- Stella; discussed at length
by Léon-François Hoffman in Essays on Haitian
Literature (1984).
1867: Haytian government
1885: Anténor Firmin
Toussaint Louverture
Miscellaneous
Related Histories of Slavery

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