If you've seen that dreadful movie, definitely read this: "The Napoléon that Ridley Scott and Hollywood won’t let you see" by Marlene Daut theconversation.com/the-napoleon-t…

City Lights hosted our last event of 2023 on Tuesday. First up in 2024: Marlene Daut will be in-store with Dr. Julia Gaffield celebrating the publication of AWAKENING THE ASHES, about the Haitian Revolution, out now from UNC Press. Register here: citylights.com/events/marlene…

TOMORROW: City Lights together with American Historical Association and UNC Press will celebrate the publication of AWAKENING THE ASHES by Marlene Daut with a virtual discussion between Marlene and Dr. Julia Gaffield. Join us at 7pm PT: citylights.com/events/marlene…

220 years ago this month, Haiti became the first nation to permanently abolish slavery. Yet Haiti’s legacy as a leader in abolition is often overlooked. Marlene Daut reflects on this erasure & introduces our latest series: Haitian sovereignty: buff.ly/48lWuaa

Even after Haitians gained independence, they faced constant threats from French colonizers seeking to violently reinstate their rule. This is why, Dr. Julia Gaffield argues, they insisted on self-rule and total territorial sovereignty, and nothing less. buff.ly/3vwAUkV

After Haitian independence in 1804, defeated French colonists used their political weight to push countries to refuse diplomatic recognition of the new nation. Dr. Julia Gaffield tells the history of Haiti’s racist exclusion from the international stage: buff.ly/48rbnYZ

“Haiti is black,” Frederick Douglass wrote in 1893, “and we have not yet forgiven Haiti for being black.” Leslie Alexander reflects on Douglass’s support for Haiti, and the lessons this history of Black abolitionist engagement with the nation holds today. buff.ly/3RMuzZO

So excited to have joined with Marlene Daut and Public Books on this article about the long history of relations between Haiti and the US Rutgers History Department

Grateful to have had the chance to work with Josh Piker at the Quarterly and looking forward to continuing the work! "Big Changes at the OIEAHC" oieahc.wm.edu/about/staff/bi…

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL for next year's The OI Colloquia series to discuss your projects in progress no later than May 15, 2024. See more details: oieahc.wm.edu/events-overvie…

Pleased to have my work on the slave trade within pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue featured alongside the brilliant Joyce E. Chaplin 🌻 Eric Herschthal Tessa Murphy and Stuart M. McManus in the latest issue of the WMQ. Dr. Julia Gaffield was a wonderful editor!

Thank you OIEAHC! My article looks at how climate change, consumerism, industrialization, racism, and resource depletion have been packed together for centuries—and how the desire for quick technical fixes to this nest of problems is as old as the United States itself

Thanks to OIEAHC, EnslavedOrg, Walter Hawthorne Daryle Williams, Josh Piker, Kristina Poznan, and fellow participants (incl. Nick Radburn Laura Rosanne Adderley Stuart M. McManus) for creating a space to workshop this research, & to Dr. Julia Gaffield for her editorship!

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe will be out w/ Alfred A. Knopf on Jan. 7th! Having uncovered a lot of new and surprising (!) info, I can't wait for people to get to know one of the world's least understood heads of state: bookshop.org/p/books/the-fi…

The Haitian Revolution began 233 years ago today, leading to Haiti's independence from France, and Haiti became the first nation to permanently abolish slavery. Let us all honor, recognize, & never forget how Haiti led the world from slavery to freedom: publicbooks.org/how-haiti-dest…

Rankont nan Lond an Angletè ak Bawòn Jenny Chapman de Darlington, Minis pou Amerik Latin ak Karayib la. Nou te diskite sou sekirite, pataj eksperyans nan zafè ransèyman, kriz sante ak eleksyon. 🇭🇹 🇬🇧 Apre sa, ansanm ak ekip mwen, mwen te vizite Achiv Nasyonal Wayòm Ini a pou

Hier, en lisant l'Acte de l'Indépendance d'Haïti à Londres, Dominique Dupuy, 34 ans, a marqué l'histoire. Son arrière-grand-père, Alexis Dupuy, était à 32 ans le 31e signataire de cet acte fondateur le 1er janvier 1804 aux Gonaïves. En s'engageant à rapatrier ce document,

Haiti - FLASH : Towards the restitution of the original copy of the Act of Independence of Haiti (Video) haitilibre.com/en/news-43212-… via HaitiLibre

The American right wing has been obsessed with Haiti as a bogeyman—a literal bête noire—since the Haitian Revolution. trib.al/yT2eYIL

.Kirkus Reviews calls Brianna Nofil’s The Migrant’s Jail “an insightful and alarming history of the nation’s failures in detraining and deporting migrants.” Read the full review: hubs.ly/Q02Q9HCf0