Marronnage in Saint-Domingue (Haiti), http://www.marronnage.info/en/
Geggus assesses the Marronnage in Saint-Domingue website, directed by Jean-Paul Le Glaunec and Leon Robichaud, at the moment it was expanding beyond the colony into other slave societies. Its core has been the runaway advertisements printed in Les Affiches Americaines, now joined by jail lists of recaptured fugitives, a record type he notes seems peculiar to the French colonies and one that should let researchers compare who escaped successfully against who did not. He praises the pairing of each document image with a searchable transcription and judges the site usable for undergraduate projects. He also corrects the project's own framing: the newspaper was microfilmed by Florida in 1993 and is online, the scholarship is not neglected, and the stated total of individuals identified looks like an error. Repeat advertisements inflate counts while most fugitives never appeared in print, so plantation papers remain a necessary complement.
Geggus, D. (2020). Marronnage in Saint-Domingue (Haiti), http://www.marronnage.info/en/. American Historical Review, 581-583.