1. CLR James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint
L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (first published
1938, rev edn 1963) (Penguin, 2001) 321.
2. The best study of the impact of the Haitian
Revolution on the politics of the Atlantic World, on slave resistance,
on liberation struggles throughout the Americas, and on the Revolution's
demographic impact on the wider Caribbean is: David Patrick Geggus (ed),
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
(University of South Carolina Press, 2001). The works that best
contextualise the Haitian Revolution in the history of Atlantic slavery
are: Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery: From the
Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800 (Verso, 1997), The
Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776–1848 (Verso, 1988), and
The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
(Verso, 2011). The most up-to-date scholarly history of the revolution
is Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the
Haitian Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2004).
3. See Nick Nesbitt, Universal Emancipation: The
Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment (University of
Virginia Press, 2008); Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal
History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009); and Doris L
Garraway, ‘ Légitime Défense : Universalism and Nationalism in
the Discourse of the Haitian Revolution’ in Doris L Garraway (ed),
Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the
Atlantic World (University of Virginia Press, 2008).
4. Illan rua Wall, Human Rights and Constituent
Power: Without Model or Warranty (Routledge, 2012) 15.
5. Ibid, 16.