Abstract
This article examines the "communication circuit" of Spenser St. John's Hayti; or, The Black Republic. In this, the most widely read work on Haiti at the close of the nineteenth century, St. John helped to crystallise ideas about that country as steeped in Vodou, and quickly "decaying" into a condition of barbarism. As the book "travelled" around the Atlantic, it was read by radically different audiences, from Haitian diplomats to British reviewers. Their corresponding and conflicting responses reveal something of the power dynamics in forming ideas about the "black republic."
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