The division of early nineteenth-century Haiti into two separately governed states led to the creation of competing printing presses under Henry Christophe in the north and Alexandre Pétion in the south and west. Here, you can journey through the northern government of Haiti’s official newspapers and explore its yearly almanacs. Remnants of a robust culture of print, these rare documents, collected from archives across Europe, the Caribbean, and North America, are presented together and in full text for the first time.
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Study the original documents and join the discussion in the annotations powered by hypothes.is. Click on the links below to journey through two of Haiti’s earliest newspapers:
Each publication is available in its original format (PDF) along with a transcribed version.
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Who’s who in early nineteenth-century Haiti?
The Royal Kingdom of Hayti also produced yearly almanacs. These publications contain vast numbers of names of Haiti’s inhabitants and visitors, offering a rich repository of information about both the ordinary and extraordinary people who lived in or visited the country in the early nineteenth century.
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Project team
Principal Investigator
Marlene L. Daut, Professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University
Transcription
Denise Groce, Claremont Graduate University; and Marlene L. Daut