This article uses a queer lens to analyze textual-visual representations of the Haitian Revolution. Anglophone texts and their accompanying images often characterize Saint-Domingue's transformation into Haiti through disaggregated bodies and extreme violence. Focusing on two Anglophone texts as case studies, this article shows how Leonora Sansay's Secret History; or The Horrors of St. Domingo (1808) and Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (1805) elicit a desire to escape empire's regulation of metropolitan normativity through spectacles of bodily disaggregation. Neither Rainsford nor Sansay were queer authors. But both works feature characters who forged queer relationships to the ground-level tumult they allegedly witnessed. Recognizing a lesser-studied tenant of queer theory known as the deformative, this essay examines how both authors' representations of the Haitian Revolution attest to the allure of escaping from patriarchal power and white dominion. At stake is a reparative reading of Anglophone texts regarding Haiti's establishment in which the collapse of normative social order became erotic and even desirable.