Five interdisciplinary essays, developed out of a doctoral project at the University of Texas at Dallas, ask what part religious faith played in the making of Haitian freedom and how that freedom has since been narrated. Joseph opens with a survey of recent scholarship on the revolution, then reads Dutty Boukman's prayer at Bois Caiman as political rhetoric that placed God on the side of the enslaved, a discourse of freedom from below. Makandal's forecast that the island's new masters would be black is examined through Fanon, as a project of decolonisation and revolutionary humanism. The last two essays follow the event abroad, taking up Frederick Douglass invoking Haiti as a city upon a hill in his arguments about race and American democracy, and Langston Hughes staging black religion and revolutionary spirit in Emperor of Haiti. Across all five runs a case that 1804 interrupted the Enlightenment's account of who counts as human.