Dessalines Reader, 10 Frimaire, an 12

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Journal tenu pendant l’expédition entreprise contre le Port-au-Prince, par le Général en chef de l’armée Indigène” and “Hymne Haytiène,” 10 Frimaire, an 12, CO 137/110, The National Archives of the United Kingdom. Continue reading

Dessalines Reader, 19 November 1803 (2)

Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Duveyrier, “Armées française et indigène,” 27 Brumaire an 12/19 November 1803, CO 137/111, The National Archives of the United Kingdom.

[treaty for the evacuation of French troops between Dessalines and Rochambeau] Continue reading

Dessalines Reader, 6 November 1803

Jean-Jacques Dessalines to George Nugent, 6 November 1803, CO 137/110, The National Archives of the United Kingdom. Continue reading

Dessalines Reader, 2 September 1803

Jean-Jacques Dessalines to George Nugent, 2 September 1803, CO 137/110, The National Archives of the United Kingdom. Continue reading

Dessalines Reader, 16 January 1804 (2)

Jean-Jacques Dessalines to Edward Corbet, 16 January 1804 (second letter on this date), MS 72, National Library of Jamaica. Continue reading

Dessalines Reader, 20 January 1804

Jean-Jacques Dessalines to George Nugent, 20 January 1804, MS 72, National Library of Jamaica. Continue reading

Dessalines Reader, 7 February 1804

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Ordonnance,” 7 February 1804, MS 72, National Library of Jamaica. Continue reading

Dessalines Reader, 16 January 1804

Jean-Jacques Dessalines to Edward Corbet, 16 January 1804, MS 72, National Library of Jamaica. Continue reading

Dessalines Reader, 26 February 1804

Jean-Jacques Dessalines to Edward Corbet, 26 February 1804, MS 72, National Library of Jamaica. Continue reading

Dessalines Reader, 1 January 1804 [transcription from NLJ]

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Armée Indigène,” [Declaration of Independence, transcription], 1 January 1804, MS 72, National Library of Jamaica. Continue reading