In this article we will analyze the possible epistemological criteria which, in the context of the Hegelian philosophy of world history, circumscribe the long Haitian revolutionary process in a narrative of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which saw the Haitian Revolution as an event that directly or trade flows across the Atlantic, Hegel seems at first to neglect the specificity of the process, although, as we argue in this context, it is possible to trace the reasons for a deliberate exclusion that responds to the precise ideas of freedom and terror that precede, and thus determine, the place of the Haitian Revolution in world history.