Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 - Paperbackby Marlene L. Daut (Author) The Haitian Revolution (1791 1804) was an event of monumental world historical significance, and here, in the first systematic literary history of those events, Haiti's war of independence is examined through the eyes of its actual and imagined participants, observers, survivors, and cultural descendants. The 'transatlantic print culture' under discussion in this literary history reveals that enlightenment racial 'science'