Joseph surveys two decades of North American writing on the Haitian Revolution and names the shift he sees in it, a movement of the event from the margins of Atlantic history toward its centre. Working through Hunt, Clavin, White, Scott, Bell, Geggus and others, and using Trouillot's account of historical silencing as his hinge, he tracks how a revolution once treated as unthinkable became a standard reference point for arguments about freedom, universal rights and modernity. His appraisal comes with a list of gaps. No biography of Dessalines exists in English, the intellectual formation of Louverture remains unwritten, enslaved women's part in the fighting is barely studied, and the African traditions that shaped rebel thought are largely unexamined. Joseph closes by pressing for research on Haiti's place in Black internationalism and Negritude, and for accurate treatment of the revolution in United States textbooks and Western historiography.