Detail map of Durham, North Carolina, United States,Port-au-Prince, Turgeau, Ouest Department, Haiti,Kew, Richmond, England, United Kingdom

A: Durham, North Carolina, United States, B: Port-au-Prince, Turgeau, Ouest Department, Haiti, C: Kew, Richmond, England, United Kingdom

Liberté ou la Mort: Julia Gaffield Discovers Haiti's Declaration of Independence

1804 to 2/2010
The only known copy of Liberté ou la Mort, the Haitian declaration of independence.
The only known copy of Liberté ou la Mort, the Haitian declaration of independence.

In February 2010 Julia Gaffield, then a Canadian graduate student at Duke University discovered in the British National archives the only known copy of the printed declaration of independence for Haiti, an 8-page pamphlet headed Liberté ou La Mort

Prior to Gaffield's discovery no copy of this document was known.

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