Many thanks to Patrick Tardieu for sending this version to me! You can read more about the publication of this document in Tardieu’s chapter in my edited volumed, The Haitian Declaration of Independence.

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Henry Christophe, and Augustin Clervaux, “Proclamation, 29 November 1803,” Aurora General Advertiser, 5 January 1804, Philadelphia, No. 4059, Page 2. Continue reading →

I wrote a post for Unique at Penn about the Spanish ms copy of Haiti’s 1805 Imperial Constitution recently acquired by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries! Continue reading →

Jean-Jacques Dessalines to Henry Christophe, 22 Fructidor, an Septième/8 September 1799, F3/201, Archives Nationales, Paris. Continue reading →

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Arrêté Relatif au Costume,” 2 January 1804, MFQ 1/184, The National Archives of the United Kingdom. Continue reading →

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Arrêté,” 2 January 1804, MFQ 1/184, The National Archives of the United Kingdom. Continue reading →

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Ordonnance,” 20 January 1804, MFQ 1/184, The National Archives of the United Kingdom. Continue reading →

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Liberté ou la Mort,” [Haitian Declaration of Independence], 1 January 1804, MFQ 1/184, The National Archives of the United Kingdom. Continue reading →

I am indebted to Andrew Walker, a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan, for sharing this document and the transcription with me. If you use the document, please acknowledge Andrew’s generosity!

Jean-Jacques Dessalines concerning the land of Agnès and Antoine Granbois, 31 January 1806, P18002, Haiti vol. 1, Mémoires et Documents, Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de la Courneuve. Continue reading →

I am indebted to Andrew Walker, a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan, for sharing this document and the transcription with me. If you use the document, please acknowledge Andrew’s generosity!

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Brevet,” 12 February 1804, MMC 2814, Celestine Bencomo Haitian Collection 1775-1915, Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Continue reading →

Many thanks to Andrew Walker, a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan for bringing this document to my attention.

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Brevet,” 7 April 1804, New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Kurt Fisher Collection, Government Papers 1728-1825, Box 8B, Folder 10 (microfilm reel 6). The document has been digitized through the Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice database (http://www.amdigital.co.uk/m-collections/collection/slavery-abolition-and-social-justice/detailed-information/ …
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