Articles of interest in Early American Studies (volume 11:2): Heather Miyano Kopelson, “‘One Indian and a Negroe, the First Thes Ilands Ever Had’: Imagining the Archive in Early Bermuda.” Early American […]
The latest issue of Slavery & Abolition includes the following articles: Scrambling for Slaves: Captive Sales in Colonial South Carolina Sean Kelley Pages: 1-21 The Penalty of a Tyrant’s Law: […]
In a long interview, Scott and Orlando Patterson discuss the sociologist and novelist’s childhood, education, public service, and books….
Philippe R. Girard, The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804. University Alabama Press, 2011. via University of Alabama Press: To a contemporary audience, Haiti […]
Irvin D. S. Winsboro, and Joe Knetsch. “Florida Slaves, the ‘Saltwater Railroad’ to the Bahamas, and Anglo-American Diplomacy.” Journal of Southern History 79, no. 1 (February 2013): 51–78. Abstract: A […]
Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Sweet Liberty: the Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). via University of Pennsylvania Press: From its founding, Martinique played an integral […]
Kevin P. Murphy and Jennifer M. Spear, eds. Historicising Gender and Sexuality. (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). via Wiley-Blackwell: Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed […]
Gloria Garcia Rodriguez. Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Documentary History. Translated by Nancy L. Westrate. Durham: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. via University of North […]
The Winter 2013 Radical History Review is a special issue: “Haitian Lives/Global Perspectives.” From the introduction: As several of the essays in this issue explain, in the years since Michel-Rolph […]
Easily the most hyped Haiti-related book to come out in the past year was Purpose: An Immigrant Story (It Books), the memoir of rapper-turned-presidential-candidate Wyclef Jean. They say Purpose is […]
