Brandon R. Byrd is an Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. Chelsea Stieber is an Associate Professor of French and the Kathryn B. Gore Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Tulane University. Nadève Ménard is a Professor of Haitian literature at the École Normale Supérieure of Université d’État d’Haïti in Port-au-Prince. She is also a translator.

• Introduction Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea StieberHaiti for the Haitians Translated from French by Nadève Ménard Annotations by Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea StieberCritical Essays 1 Louis-Joseph Janvier, National Writer Yves Chemla For Ludovic Janvier Translated from French by Nadève Ménard2 Caribbean “Race Men”: Louis Joseph Janvier, Demesvar Delorme, and the Haitian Atlantic Marlene L. Daut3 There Is No Odd in Ordinary: Louis Joseph Janvier, Haiti, and the Tropics of Racial Science Bastien Craipain4 Haïti farà da se: French Third Republic Colonial Universalism and Louis Joseph Janvier’s Haitian Autonomy Chelsea Stieber5 Louis-Joseph Janvier, the Founding Theorist of the Haitian Nation (an Active Reading of Haïti aux Haïtiens) Watson Denis Translated from French by Nadève Ménard6 Haiti for the Haitians: A Genealogy of Black Sovereignty Brandon R. ByrdAfterword: The Elusive Habitant Jean Casimir Translated from French by Chelsea Stieber

"This is a welcome addition to the field of nineteenth-century Haitian intellectual history. Equally important, it makes a significant contribution to the wider study of Caribbean and Black Atlantic literary figures and their views on coloniality and post-coloniality, as well as the distortionary power of Eurocentric epistemology and the production of knowledge with regard to colonial societies, and not least, to issues of how the West has constructed the very concept of race and used it to undergird racialized imperialist policies." Carolyn Fick, Concordia University

Brandon R. Byrd is an Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. Chelsea Stieber is an Associate Professor of French and the Kathryn B. Gore Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Tulane University. Nadève Ménard is a Professor of Haitian literature at the École Normale Supérieure of Université d’État d’Haïti in Port-au-Prince. She is also a translator.

• Introduction Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea StieberHaiti for the Haitians Translated from French by Nadève Ménard Annotations by Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea StieberCritical Essays 1 Louis-Joseph Janvier, National Writer Yves Chemla For Ludovic Janvier Translated from French by Nadève Ménard2 Caribbean “Race Men”: Louis Joseph Janvier, Demesvar Delorme, and the Haitian Atlantic Marlene L. Daut3 There Is No Odd in Ordinary: Louis Joseph Janvier, Haiti, and the Tropics of Racial Science Bastien Craipain4 Haïti farà da se: French Third Republic Colonial Universalism and Louis Joseph Janvier’s Haitian Autonomy Chelsea Stieber5 Louis-Joseph Janvier, the Founding Theorist of the Haitian Nation (an Active Reading of Haïti aux Haïtiens) Watson Denis Translated from French by Nadève Ménard6 Haiti for the Haitians: A Genealogy of Black Sovereignty Brandon R. ByrdAfterword: The Elusive Habitant Jean Casimir Translated from French by Chelsea Stieber

"This is a welcome addition to the field of nineteenth-century Haitian intellectual history. Equally important, it makes a significant contribution to the wider study of Caribbean and Black Atlantic literary figures and their views on coloniality and post-coloniality, as well as the distortionary power of Eurocentric epistemology and the production of knowledge with regard to colonial societies, and not least, to issues of how the West has constructed the very concept of race and used it to undergird racialized imperialist policies." Carolyn Fick, Concordia University

Brandon R. Byrd is an Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. Chelsea Stieber is an Associate Professor of French and the Kathryn B. Gore Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Tulane University. Nadève Ménard is a Professor of Haitian literature at the École Normale Supérieure of Université d’État d’Haïti in Port-au-Prince. She is also a translator.

• Introduction Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea StieberHaiti for the Haitians Translated from French by Nadève Ménard Annotations by Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea StieberCritical Essays 1 Louis-Joseph Janvier, National Writer Yves Chemla For Ludovic Janvier Translated from French by Nadève Ménard2 Caribbean “Race Men”: Louis Joseph Janvier, Demesvar Delorme, and the Haitian Atlantic Marlene L. Daut3 There Is No Odd in Ordinary: Louis Joseph Janvier, Haiti, and the Tropics of Racial Science Bastien Craipain4 Haïti farà da se: French Third Republic Colonial Universalism and Louis Joseph Janvier’s Haitian Autonomy Chelsea Stieber5 Louis-Joseph Janvier, the Founding Theorist of the Haitian Nation (an Active Reading of Haïti aux Haïtiens) Watson Denis Translated from French by Nadève Ménard6 Haiti for the Haitians: A Genealogy of Black Sovereignty Brandon R. ByrdAfterword: The Elusive Habitant Jean Casimir Translated from French by Chelsea Stieber

"This is a welcome addition to the field of nineteenth-century Haitian intellectual history. Equally important, it makes a significant contribution to the wider study of Caribbean and Black Atlantic literary figures and their views on coloniality and post-coloniality, as well as the distortionary power of Eurocentric epistemology and the production of knowledge with regard to colonial societies, and not least, to issues of how the West has constructed the very concept of race and used it to undergird racialized imperialist policies." Carolyn Fick, Concordia University