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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'
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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
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“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

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

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

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

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…

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…

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
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In this episode, my special guest is noted historian Dr. Dr. Julia Gaffield who discusses the complexities of Haiti's diplomatic recognition post-revolution and independence.

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The October 2023 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly is now available and includes pieces by Gunvor Simonsen and Rasmus Christensen, Sharon Block, SJ Zhang, Christine DeLucia, Marisa J. Fuentes, Lara Putnam, Martha Hodes, as well as an Editor's Note by Joshua Piker.

New WMQ dropped! (aka my life lately)
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'By exposing the intellec. contributions of 19th-c Haitian scholars & leaders to our modern understanding of freedom & equality, Daut shows the ongoing racism of current intellec. genealogies & offers a new way of thinking abt…colonial & postcolonial studies.'—Dr. Julia Gaffield

Hot off the press from Marlene Daut with UNC Press and Brandon Byrd, chelsea stieber, and Nadève Ménard with Liverpool University Press!!

Apply for the 2024 WMQ-USC EMSI Workshop, “Resisting Enslavement in Vast Early America,' convened by Jennifer L. Morgan! Deadline Oct 15, 2023.
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DMV area peeps, see you on October 25 at Busboys and Poets Shirlington for the book talk Awakening the Ashes by dear Marlene Daut with Dr. Julia Gaffield #slaveryarchive

Did you hear the news? Dr. Julia Gaffield is joining Team Q! Please join us in welcoming her as the interim editor of the William and Mary Quarterly, #VastEarlyAmerica ! oieahc.wm.edu/publications/w… #twitterstorians