Too cool!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/02/uk.haiti.independence.declaration/<snip>
London, England (CNN) -- An American graduate student has found the only known printed copy of Haiti's Declaration of Independence, tucked away in Britain's National Archives, researchers said.
Duke University student Julia Gaffield found the eight-page pamphlet, dated January 1, 1804, while researching Haiti's early independence, Duke said in a statement Thursday.
The discovery sheds light on the early history of Haiti and the relations it had with its Caribbean neighbors at the time, Gaffield and Duke Professor Deborah Jenson said.
Gaffield is researching early 19th-century Haiti for her doctoral dissertation in history, Duke said. She did research in France, Haiti and Jamaica, where she saw a handwritten copy of the declaration in the papers of Jamaica's governor at the time, George Nugent.
It indicated there was a printed version somewhere, but it wasn't enclosed.
In late January, Gaffield went to London for research at the National Archives, where she found the printed declaration.