Hosted, organized, and compiled by Julia Gaffield: "Jean-Jacques Dessalines is one of the Haitian Revolution’s most poorly and least understood heroes. Beginning with his ascent to power and continuing into the twenty-first century, Dessalines has been criticized for his use of violence during and after the Revolution as well as for his alleged political incompetence. … Continue reading DIGITAL: Gaffield’s Dessalines Reader
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Dubois on Why Haiti Should be at the Center of the Age of Revolution | Aeon
Laurent Dubois on Aeon on the Haitian Revolution and writing Atlantic History: "That is notably true when we think about how to write the history of slavery, and more particularly of the enslaved themselves and how they experienced, viewed and, at times, rebelled against the institution. The Atlantic was the site of one of the … Continue reading Dubois on Why Haiti Should be at the Center of the Age of Revolution | Aeon
Goldthree Interviews Gaffield on Haiti and the Atlantic World | @AAIHS
At AAIHS, Reena Goldthree interviews Julia Gaffield on her new book Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: "Reena Goldthree (RG): Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World chronicles how Haitian officials constructed diplomatic, commercial, and military ties with foreign governments and merchants in the early nineteenth century. Your book joins a remarkably rich body of scholarship … Continue reading Goldthree Interviews Gaffield on Haiti and the Atlantic World | @AAIHS
BOOK: Gaffield on Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World
Julia Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. via UNC Press: On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's postrevolutionary period as one during which the international community rejected Haiti's Declaration of Independence and adopted … Continue reading BOOK: Gaffield on Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World
PODCAST: Daut Interview on Tropics of Haiti
Marlene Daut interviewed by Dan Livesay from the New Books in Caribbean Studies podcast: "Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool University Press, 2015). She not only describes the immediate … Continue reading PODCAST: Daut Interview on Tropics of Haiti
ARTICLE: Semley on “To Live and Die, Free and French”
Lorelle D. Semley, “To Live and Die, Free and French Toussaint Louverture’s 1801 Constitution and the Original Challenge of Black Citizenship.” Radical History Review 2013, no. 115 (2013): 65–90. Abstract: "Haiti was not yet born when Toussaint Louverture wrote his 1801 Constitution as governor-general of the French colony of Saint-Domingue. Louverture declared loyalty to … Continue reading ARTICLE: Semley on “To Live and Die, Free and French”
BOOK: Ferrer on Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
Freedom’s Mirror follows the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred at the very moment that the Haitian Revolution provided a powerful and proximate example of slaves destroying slavery...
ARTICLE/JOURNAL: Radical History Review Special Issue: Haitian Lives/Global Perspectives
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 Trouillot famously showed that the Haitian Revolution was “unthinkable” and its his- tory relegated to silence, the country’s history has gone from “hidden” and “unknow- … Continue reading ARTICLE/JOURNAL: Radical History Review Special Issue: Haitian Lives/Global Perspectives
Radical Black Reading/Reading Haiti, 2012 | The Public Archive
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 actually not that bad, especially if you’re interested in either Clef’s take on the dissolution of the Fugees or his embittered account of his agonized … Continue reading Radical Black Reading/Reading Haiti, 2012 | The Public Archive
FORUM: Dubois, Girard, Gaffield, and Jenson on Jean-Jacques Dessalines
The July 2012 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly is hosting a special forum on "Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the Haitian Revolution." The forum includes: Laurent Dubois, "Dessalines Toro d'Haiti." Philippe R. Girard, "Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the Atlantic System: A Reappraisal:" Revered in Haiti as a founding father committed to his countrymen’s freedom and independence, … Continue reading FORUM: Dubois, Girard, Gaffield, and Jenson on Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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