This series delves into the complex history and enduring legacies of the slave trade and slavery. It adopts international and interdisciplinary approaches to understand its cultural and social effects on all societies involved. Emphasis is placed on resistance, memorialization, and the interpretation of slavery within a broader public history agenda.
An introduction to the Afro-diasporic literature of the Haitian Revolution, Beyond the Slave Narrative frames the unique contributions to anti-colonial thought of Haitian general Jean-Jacques Dessalines and other singular Haitian voices.
These links have long been a source of critical fascination, generating several landmark analyses, ranging from Fernando Ortis's Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (1940) and Noel Deerr's monumental two-volume The History of Sugar (1949-50) to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985).
A literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about `race' affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race.