Deborah Jenson "Editor's Preface "Nick Nesbitt "The Idea of 1804 "Christopher L. Miller "Forget Haiti: Baron Roger and The New Africa "Chris Bongie ""Monotonies of History" Baron Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott's "Haitian Trilogy Doris Kadish "Haiti and Abolitionism in 1825: The Example of Sophie Doin "David F. Bell "Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime "Uri Eisenzweig "Violence Untold: The Birth of a Modern Fascination "Dominique Kalifa "Criminal Investigators at the Fin-de-siecle "Andrea Goulet "Curiosity Killer's Instinct: Bibliophilia and the Myth of the Rational Detective "Nanette Fornabai "Criminal Factors: Fantomas, Anthropometrics, and the Numerical Fictions of Modern Criminal Identity "Tom Gunning "Lynx-Eyed Detectives and Shadow Bandits: Visuality and Eclipse in French Detective Stories and Films before WWI "Daniel Desormeaux "The First of the (Black) Memorialists: Toussaint Louverture "Albert Valdman "Haitian Creole at the Dawn of Independence "Deborah Jenson "From the Kidnapping(s) ofthe Louvertures to the Alleged Kidnapping of Aristide: Legacies of Slavery in the Post/Colonial World ".