Haitian Revolution

The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

January 15, 2019January 29, 2019 Mike Jirik 1 Comment
black radical tradition, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, student activism

On the night of August 20, 2018, student protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toppled a

Haitian and Dominican Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century

July 2, 2018July 5, 2018 Sandy Placido Anticolonialism, Cuba, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Puerto Rico

In We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, historian Anne Eller cogently interprets the geopolitical shifts that

Haitian Writer Baron de Vastey and Black Atlantic Humanism: An Interview with Marlene L. Daut

June 4, 2018June 16, 2018 Julia Gaffield black intellectual history, blackness, freedom, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, slavery

In today’s post, Julia Gaffield, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, interviews Marlene L. Daut on her new book Baron

The Historical Hatred of Haiti

December 18, 2017December 21, 2017 Ameer Hasan Loggins Haiti, Haitian Revolution

In 2016, while campaigning in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Donald Trump told a group of Haitians that, “We have a

Battle at San Domingo, January Suchodolski, 1845. Photo: Wikimedia.

Translation for the Purposes of Indictment: Baron de Vastey in Colonial Jamaica

May 18, 2017May 22, 2017 Marlene L. Daut Caribbean, colonialism, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Jamaica, slavery

In February 1817, a man named Thomas Strafford returned to Kingston from the Kingdom of Hayti. Shortly afterward he would

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