Tout Moun, 1/11: Who Gets to Tell the Revolution?

Episode 1/11 of Tout Moun, a Deep Dive series on the people who made the Haitian Revolution. For two centuries the Revolution was told through its great men, while the enslaved men and women who made it left almost no writing of their own. We trace how the story has been written, from the first foreign accounts to Madiou, Ardouin, Sannon and C. L. R. James, and how the people can still be found in court interrogations, prison records, captured letters and the oral tradition. We also explain why this series spends so much of its time in the South.

Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-10-29/transcript