The Black Republic: An Author’s Response
The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution
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Memory
African Americans, Black Internationalism, and the Fate of Haiti
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. From the outside looking in, there
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Haiti and Black Internationalism in the Twenty-First Century
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. African Americans’ tenuous relationship to American
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“We Have Not Yet Forgiven Haiti For Being Black”
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. On January 2, 1893, eighty-nine
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Marronage and the Great Dismal Swamp
For recent scholars, the Great Dismal Swamp—an ecological treasure that stretches across present-day Virginia and into North Carolina—stands as a
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