In unraveling how American literary history has silenced the centrality of Haiti in U.S. cultural development, The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters: Incipient Fevers recuperates lost textual objects while redressing a crucial blind spot in American literary history. Faherty's thinking and writing are replete with clarity and elegance, rendering just how much the materiality of aesthetics intersects with political and social formation. The introduction, in particular, makes a striking, readable, inspiring best case for beholding Haiti's presence in U.S. national literary imagining.