Constitutions of the world from the late 18th century to the middle of the 19th century. Vol. 10: America Documents constitutionnels d'Haïti 1790 - 1860 = Constitutional Documents of Haiti 1790 - 1860 / edited by Laurent Dubois ... / edité par Laurent Dubois
This bilingual edition gathers the constitutions that governed Haiti and its colonial predecessor across seventy years, with an editorial introduction explaining where each printed text came from and why one version was preferred to another.
The sequence opens with Louverture's constitution of 1801, which formalised a governing structure already in place and made him the colony's sole legitimate voice to Paris; its promulgation brought the Leclerc expedition, and Louverture's death at the Fort de Joux. After independence, Dessalines's charter of 1805 declared an empire, entrenched the abolition of slavery — a clause repeated down to 1849 — barred white men from owning land, refused to name a dominant religion and permitted divorce.
Later documents swing between republic, empire and monarchy while returning to the same questions of citizenship, foreign landholding and religion. All insist on sovereignty, and all reassure foreign powers that Haiti had no intention of exporting its revolution.
Constitutions of the world from the late 18th century to the middle of the 19th century. Vol. 10: America Documents constitutionnels d'Haïti 1790 - 1860 = Constitutional Documents of Haiti 1790 - 1860 / edited by Laurent Dubois ... / edité par Laurent Dubois. (2013).
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