A Stay at the London Archives

As curator of the Haitian Spiritans Library, I regularly received students.

Patrick Tardieu
03 Oct 2025 — Lecture : 7 min.

As curator of the Haitian Spiritans Library, I regularly received students. It was in this way that Julia Gaffield, then a doctoral candidate in history at Duke University, visited us in the late 2000s to further her research on Jean-Jacques Dessalines. She later traveled to Jamaica to pursue her investigations. There, she learned that the correspondence between Dessalines and the British government had been transferred to England.

In January 2010, in London, she came across several documents of paramount importance. Among them wer

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