Daut asks why Haitian accounts of the Haitian Revolution stay outside the record even among scholars who agree that the revolution has been silenced. Reading Boisrond-Tonnerre's memoir and Vastey's Le Système colonial dévoilé alongside earlier political memoirs by Rigaud and Raimond, she shows these writers grounding their authority in participation rather than eloquence and offering plain narration as evidence of truthfulness, against colonial authors who filled Saint-Domingue with Edenic scenery while hiding what the plantation did. Nineteenth-century European and North American commentators dismissed such testimony as passion rather than reason, and later historians, David Nicholls among them, discounted Haitian writers by invoking their colour or their politics. Those dismissals, Daut argues, reproduce a bias already inscribed in the sources, since every act of inclusion excludes; recovering a counter-memory of 1804 means reading Haitian print culture as history in its own right.