French Caribbean
Reference Works
Historical dictionary of the French and Netherlands Antilles, by Albert Gastmann. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1978. viii, 162 p.
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Bibliography
Guide de la recherche en histoire antillaise et guyanaise : Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Domingue, Guyane, XVIIe-XXIe siècle, sous la direction de Danielle Bégot ; avec la collaboration de Benoît Bérard et al. Paris : CTHS, 2011. 2 v.
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--Offers a thorough annotated listing of both secondary and primary works. Arranged by subject.
Document Collections
The legal patrimony of Haiti project has digitized a large collection of reports, histories, periodicals and Haitian constitutional, executive and legislative documents, many from circa 1800
Via LLMC Digital
Via the Digital Library of the Caribbean
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The legal patrimony of Haiti : an annotated bibliography, by the LLMC staff ; ed. by Richard C. Amelung.Getzville, New York : William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 2016, xi, 218 pages
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Haitian Law Digital Collection in the Digital Library of the Caribbean
Gallica includes the full-text for more than 100,000 volumes and 300,000 images covering the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century material. Included are dictionaries and encyclopedias, journals, manuscripts, recordings and images.
Lois de la colonie française de Saint-Domingue. Port-au-Prince, 1801
Estampes sur la Martinique et les Antilles, XVIIe-XIXe siècle
Documents d'histoire antillaise et guyanaise, 1814-1914, [recueillis] par Jacques Adélaïde-Merlande. [S.l. : s.n.], 1979 (Noyon, Oise : Finet), 323 p.
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Miscellaneous pamphlets on Haiti [and the French West Indies concerning slavery, written by the Société des amis des noirs and the Assemblée des citoyens de couleur des isles et colonies françoises and their members]. Microfilm. 1789-1790, 33 items.
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A Colony in Crisis: The Saint Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789 offers the French originals and the English translations of primary sources.
Personal Accounts
Voix d'esclaves : Antilles, Guyane et Louisiane françaises, XVIIIe-XIXe siècle, sous la direction de Dominique Rogers. Paris : Karthala : CIRESC ; Fort-de-France : SAA, 2015, 184 pages.
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Travel accounts and descriptions of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1800-1920: a selected bibliography, by Thomas L. Welch and Myriam Figueras. Washington, DC: Columbus Memorial Library, Organization of American States, 1982, 293 p.
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