It is by now rather commonplace in academic circles to refer to the idea that the Haitian Revolution has been ‘silenced’ for the past two centuries in both scholarship and popular history. The concept of ‘silencing’ refers to the work of the late Michel-Rolph Trouillot, who, in his landmark Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995), argued that through both a ‘formula of banalization’ and a ‘formula of erasure,’ the ‘silencing’ of the Haitian Revolution has become merely one ‘chapter within a narrative of global domination’ (96). This form of ‘silencing,’ he writes—‘“It” did not really happen; it was not that bad, or that important’ (96)—is ‘a part of the history of the West, and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world’ (107). While acknowledging that these silences exist has proved to be extraordinarily important to restoring the Haitian Revolution to its proper place among the most world-historical events of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, in recent years a proliferation of writings have challenged Trouillot's premise of ‘silencing’ itself. Ada Ferrer, for example, has written: