Print Culture and the Haitian Revolution: The Written and the Spoken Word.

Haiti's revolution, a slave uprising that embodied the ideals of liberty, equality, and independence, seems removed from the print culture of the Enlightenment and from the liberal democratic ideology that it helped to develop. This paper examines a substantial print archive that has attracted remarkably few historians, including Saint Domingue's weekly newspapers from 1764 onward, the refugee press of Philadelphia, and histories of the revolution published in the United States and France.