Haiti, History, and the Gods

PROLOGUE xi(10) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxi(2) NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY xxiii PART ONE 3(74) 1 Rituals of History 3(74) Romancing the Dark World 5(2) Black Skin, White Heart 7(3) Between Civilization and Barbarism 10(3) No Easy Liberty 13(3) Dessalines, Dessalines Demanbre 16(13) Dismemberment, Naming, and Divinity 29(10) Defilee 39(15) Ezili 54(11) Service 65(12) PART TWO 77(66) 2 Fictions of Haiti 77(66) Writing Misery 79(6) A Rhetoric of Lament 85(8) Holy Earth, We Are among Your Children 93(4) Dying to Serve 97(7) Ezili, Marinet, Agwe, and Ogou 104(13) Marie-Ange, Claire, and Rose 117(7) "Hallelujah for a Garden-Woman" 124(19) PART THREE 143(126) 3 Last Days of Saint-Domingue 143(44) The Paradise of the New World 147(5) Locked Up in Saint-Domingue 152(10) An American Adventure 162(3) Leonora Sansay, Aaron Burr, and the Love Letter 165(5) Dressed to Kill 170(12) A New World Theater 182(5) 4 Gothic Americas 187(82) Romance and Race 189(10) The Black Code 199(13) Sade, Lejeune, and the Manual 212(7) Taxonomies of Enlightenment 219(18) Tools of Terror 237(21) The Long Road to Guinea 258(11) CHRONOLOGY 269(18) NOTES 287(42) INDEX 329