Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Extract from the Secret Deliberations of the government of the Island of Hayti,” 29 February 1804, Relf’s Philadelphia Gazette, 30 April 1804, Page 3. Continue reading →

Jean-Jacques Dessalines to General Leclerc, 23 Fructidor/10 September 1802, The Philadelphia Gazette & Daily Advertiser, 8 October 1802, page 3.
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Graham Nessler, who has an awesome forthcoming book with UNC, just wrote a post for their blog! Here is an excerpt of the post:
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines to General [Toussaint Louverture], 4 July 1800, Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser, Baltimore, Maryland, 8 August 1800, page 3.
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines to Toussaint Louverutre, 10 Messidor an 8/28 June 1800, Telegraphe and Daily Advertiser, Baltimore, Maryland, page 3.
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I initially created this website as a supplement to The Haitian Declaration of Independence in an Atlantic Context, a conference hosted and funded by the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies in 2013. You can find a summary of the conference at the Legal History Blog and you can also see a Tweet-summary of the conference at David Armitage’s storified recap of the live tweeting from the conference (#HaitiDOI). Our edited volume entitled The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy, (University of Virginia Press) is now available!

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The Age of Revolution seems to be having a moment in the historical world. January 2016 is overflowing with thought-provoking debates about the state of the field and new directions for the historiography. Here is a roundup of recent summaries of some of these discussion!

Benjamin Park wrote a post on The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History

Jordan Taylor storified the tweets from four of the five Age of Revolutions Panels at the AHA:

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