This book explores the different ways in which the early Haitian state was represented in print culture in America and Britain in the early nineteenth century.

What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching – lethal, extralegal gro

Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established

The essays gathered in Haiti's Literary Legacies unpack the theoretical, historical, and political resonance of the Haitian revolution across a multiplicity of

This is the first book to study how Haitian authors – from independence in 1804 to the modern Haitian diaspora – have adapted Greco-Roman material and harne