Theresa: A Haytien Tale (1827)

Winter 2015 – No. 1
Edited by Eric Gardner and Nicole Aljoe

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Toussaint l’Ouverture, lithograph, United States, between 1830 and 1860

Map of Haiti — Carte générale de l’ile de St. Domingue, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu (Paris, 1802)

Classroom activities, assignments & student reflections

Links and Contextual information

Images
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Links/Contexts
- Bibliography
- “An Account of the Wife of Toussaint Louverture”. The Christian Observer. No. 35. November 1804 (No. 11. Vol III) p. 675.
Haiti & Haitian Revolution
- The Louverture project, a free Haitian history resource
- “Slave Resistance: A Revolution in Haiti”
- The Choices Program, Haitian Revolution, Brown University
Early 19^th Century Black Social Activism
- David Walkers Appeal
- The Colored Conventions Project, at http://ColoredConventions.org
Early Black Periodicals
- Pbs.org/Freedom’s Journal
- Former Offices of Freedom’s Journal, Mapping the African American Past
- Excerpts from Freedom’s Journal at Accessible Archives
- Digital images of volumes 1 and 2 of Freedom’s Journal are available here
Early 19^th Century Black Writing
- Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19^th Century
Representations of Black Women in 19^th century
- Digital Schomburg Images of African American from the 19^th century
- Dido Belle
- Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman/“Venus Hottentot”
- “Josephine Dessaline, The Empress of Hayti” in Lewis Goldsmith, The female revolutionary Plutarch: containing biographical, historical and revolutionary sketches, characters and anecdotes (1806)

Teaching Reflections