In a video for the Grio, Natasha Lightfoot discusses slave rebellions and resistance: "What about our ancestors who didn't 'jump from ships'? Did they ever fight back against the cruelty of slavery? "Closing Black History Month, Dr. Natasha Lightfoot tells the story of Black slave rebellions..."
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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
SOURCE: Nat Turner and the Haitian Revolution | The Public Archive
In 1831, Samuel Warner wrote: "In consequence of the alarming increase of the Black population at the South, fears have been long entertained, that it might one day be the unhappy lot of the whites, in that section, to witness scenes similar to those which but a few years since, nearly depopulated the once flourishing … Continue reading SOURCE: Nat Turner and the Haitian Revolution | The Public Archive
Diouf on Nat Turner and More Resources for Research | Lapidus Center
Sylviane Diouf offers resources for learning more about Nat Turner and the Southampton Rebellion: "The leader of the most famous slave uprising in the history of the United States has been the subject of newspapers and scholarly articles, books, plays, a documentary, and a feature film, but his personality and his ultimate intentions are still … Continue reading Diouf on Nat Turner and More Resources for Research | Lapidus Center
EDITED: Scully and Patton on Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
Pamela Scully and Diana Paton, eds. Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World. Duke University Press, 2005. via Duke U Press: "This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Africa and South Africa, and the … Continue reading EDITED: Scully and Patton on Gender and Slave Emancipation 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
Shepherd Interview on the Morant Bay Rebellion in The Voice
Verene Shepherd, professor of social history at the University of the West Indies, reflects on the 150th anniversary of Morant Bay and the execution of Paul Bogle... What was, in your view, the main trigger for the rebellion? VS: First of all, it was a war, not a rebellion. Both sides were armed and the … Continue reading Shepherd Interview on the Morant Bay Rebellion in The Voice
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