You would study El reino de este mundo, Changó, el gran putas (which is also about the Haitian revolution but by an actual Afro-Latin author), and Haitian material, and Louisiana material on Mackandal.
(I wish I could teach classes like that. A colleague said: “I am glad this is my retirement job, because if it were my career, it would fail, as one cannot get ahead here.”)
Axé.