American Trade with Revolutionary Haiti: A Dataset for Public Use

American Trade with Revolutionary Haiti: A Dataset for Public Use

By James Alexander Dun It was spring 2002 and I was entering what I thought—and hoped and needed to be—the final stages of my dissertation, a study of the ways in which the events that historians have since termed the Haitian Revolution were received, understood, and, crucially, used by contemporary Americans. To get after that, a big chunk of my research had involved reading and transcribing scads of newspaper reports. This was before widescale…