Editing Henri Christophe (section)

== French attempt to regain Haiti ==
After Napoleon abdicated in April 1814, King [[Louis XVIII]] attempted to take back St Domingue.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History|last=Araujo|first=Ana Lucia|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|year=2017|isbn=978-1350010604|location=London & New York}}</ref> The [[Treaty of Paris (1814)|Treaty of Paris]], ratified on 30 May, gave neighboring Santo Domingo back to Spain, and granted an extra five years of slave trade in which to recoup losses entailed by abolition of slavery. In October 1814, Henry I's ministers made public evidence of French schemes to try and recover its former colony, in the form of letters carried by French agents captured on the island.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Procès verbal d'interrogatoires de Agoustine Franco, dit Medina, espion français. Royaume d'Hayti. Commission militaire spéciale|publisher=chez P. Roux, imprimeur du Roi.|year=1814|location=Cap-Henry, Haiti}}</ref> In the ensuing uproar, the nation mobilized for the expected French invasion and began an international public relations campaign. From November on, reprints of Haitian pamphlets, newspapers and open letters appeared in print media across the Atlantic world.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=McIntosh & Pierrot|first=Tabitha & Grégory|date=July 2016|title=Capturing the likeness of Henry I of Haiti (1805–1822)|journal=Atlantic Studies|volume=14, 2017 |issue=2|pages=127–151|doi=10.1080/14788810.2016.1203214|s2cid=163772175}}</ref> Such broadsides and editorial interventions were accompanied by critical theoretical texts on race and colonialism such as [[Pompée Valentin Vastey]]'s ''The Colonial System Unveiled'' (''Le Système colonial dévoilé'').<ref>{{Cite book|title=Le Système colonial dévoilé|last=Vastey|first=Pompée Valentin|publisher=P Roux|year=1814|location=Cap-Henry, Haiti}}</ref> Simultaneously, Henry opened up communication with the most prominent English abolitionists: his letter to [[William Wilberforce]] arrived on 5 January 1815, and began a new level of engagement between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Haiti.<ref name=":0" />