Lesley S. Curtis (Edited and Translated by) Lesley S. Curtis is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Comparative Literature at Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College.Christen Mucher (Editor) Christen Mucher is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Smith College.

• Contents Editors' Acknowledgments vii Editors' Introduction Lesley S. Curtis and Christen Mucher ix Author's Note 1 To the Reader B. Ardouin 3 STELLA Glossary of Foreign Words and Expressions 185 Original Explanatory Notes 187 Editors' Notes 191 About the Editors 195

"Given the linguistic barriers that often impede the work of studying multilingual archives, such as the Haitian Revolution, Lesley S. Curtis and Christen Mucher have performed crucial scholarly work by making available to Anglophone scholars of early Americas an edited translation of Haitis first novel, Emeric Bergeauds Stella Curtiss and Muchers translation is a solid effort." (Early American Literature) "Representing the Haitian Revolution has proven as much a challenge for Haitian as for Caribbean writers. An early exemplar of the ideal of the Haitian writer as national visionary,Émeric Bergeaud was a pioneer in this regard, choosing the novel form to recount Haitis complex revolutionary past.More than a mere curiosity,Stellauses symbol and allegory to establish a foundational myth for the new republic. Curtis and Muchers welcome translation provides a fluent, often poetic rendering of the original work." - J. Michael Dash,New York University "Sure to have a tremendous impact on the fields of transatlantic, colonial, early American, and Caribbean studies. The voice of Haitians is too often unregistered in scholarly accounts of the history of Haiti. This translationintroduces a different and absolutely crucial perspective on the Haitian Revolutionnamely, a Haitian perspective." - Elizabeth Maddock Dillon,author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849

Lesley S. Curtis (Edited and Translated by) Lesley S. Curtis is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Comparative Literature at Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College.Christen Mucher (Editor) Christen Mucher is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Smith College.

• Contents Editors' Acknowledgments vii Editors' Introduction Lesley S. Curtis and Christen Mucher ix Author's Note 1 To the Reader B. Ardouin 3 STELLA Glossary of Foreign Words and Expressions 185 Original Explanatory Notes 187 Editors' Notes 191 About the Editors 195

"Given the linguistic barriers that often impede the work of studying multilingual archives, such as the Haitian Revolution, Lesley S. Curtis and Christen Mucher have performed crucial scholarly work by making available to Anglophone scholars of early Americas an edited translation of Haitis first novel, Emeric Bergeauds Stella Curtiss and Muchers translation is a solid effort." (Early American Literature) "Representing the Haitian Revolution has proven as much a challenge for Haitian as for Caribbean writers. An early exemplar of the ideal of the Haitian writer as national visionary,Émeric Bergeaud was a pioneer in this regard, choosing the novel form to recount Haitis complex revolutionary past.More than a mere curiosity,Stellauses symbol and allegory to establish a foundational myth for the new republic. Curtis and Muchers welcome translation provides a fluent, often poetic rendering of the original work." - J. Michael Dash,New York University "Sure to have a tremendous impact on the fields of transatlantic, colonial, early American, and Caribbean studies. The voice of Haitians is too often unregistered in scholarly accounts of the history of Haiti. This translationintroduces a different and absolutely crucial perspective on the Haitian Revolutionnamely, a Haitian perspective." - Elizabeth Maddock Dillon,author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849

Lesley S. Curtis (Edited and Translated by) Lesley S. Curtis is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Comparative Literature at Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College.Christen Mucher (Editor) Christen Mucher is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Smith College.

• Contents Editors' Acknowledgments vii Editors' Introduction Lesley S. Curtis and Christen Mucher ix Author's Note 1 To the Reader B. Ardouin 3 STELLA Glossary of Foreign Words and Expressions 185 Original Explanatory Notes 187 Editors' Notes 191 About the Editors 195

"Given the linguistic barriers that often impede the work of studying multilingual archives, such as the Haitian Revolution, Lesley S. Curtis and Christen Mucher have performed crucial scholarly work by making available to Anglophone scholars of early Americas an edited translation of Haitis first novel, Emeric Bergeauds Stella Curtiss and Muchers translation is a solid effort." (Early American Literature) "Representing the Haitian Revolution has proven as much a challenge for Haitian as for Caribbean writers. An early exemplar of the ideal of the Haitian writer as national visionary,Émeric Bergeaud was a pioneer in this regard, choosing the novel form to recount Haitis complex revolutionary past.More than a mere curiosity,Stellauses symbol and allegory to establish a foundational myth for the new republic. Curtis and Muchers welcome translation provides a fluent, often poetic rendering of the original work." - J. Michael Dash,New York University "Sure to have a tremendous impact on the fields of transatlantic, colonial, early American, and Caribbean studies. The voice of Haitians is too often unregistered in scholarly accounts of the history of Haiti. This translationintroduces a different and absolutely crucial perspective on the Haitian Revolutionnamely, a Haitian perspective." - Elizabeth Maddock Dillon,author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849