Caribbean

The Digital Library of the Caribbean is a multi-institutional, international digital library. It contains over 4 million pages of newspapers, maps, photographs, and more.

Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in 1804. Periodicals described the Haitian revolution with sentimental and sensationalist undertones which took new life in early U.S. fiction. In The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters: Incipient Fevers, Duncan Faherty demonstrates that Haiti was not an enigma occasionally deployed by American writers, but rather the bellwether against which the prospects for the nation’s future were imagined and interrogated.