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https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
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I am thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haitiâs Fight for Freedom (June 2025
@yalepress.bsky.social
) The stunning painting is by Haitian-American artist Ulrick Jean-Pierre (
ulrickjeanpierre.com
)
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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wow what an intro for a biography
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Come hang out with Marlene Daut, Olive Senior, Chantalle Verna, and me at the
@miamibookfair.bsky.social
in November!
#ReadCaribbean
#MiamiBookFair
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John Kuhn
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absolute dream job for the right person
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My interim editorship is over at the end of the academic year and we are hiring a permanent editor of the WMQ! Please share widely!
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I'm very grateful for this article on my book "I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom" in the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste!
@yalepress.bsky.social
lenouvelliste.com/article/2609...
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Quand Julia Gaffield fait le portrait de Jean-Jacques Dessalines et de son leg de liberté ...
Julia Gaffield, professeur agrĂ©gĂ© d'histoire Ă William & Mary, Ă travers âAVENGED AMERICA âŠJEAN JACQUES DESSALINES and Haiti's Fight for Freedomâ, 340 pages, publiĂ© par Yale University Press, a fait p...
https://lenouvelliste.com/article/260935/quand-julia-gaffield-fait-le-portrait-de-jean-dessalines-et-de-son-leg-de-liberte
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Eric Beckman
20 days ago
Happy Jean-Jacques Dessalines Day! By happy coincidence I finished
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's excellent book today, learning the significance of October 17 in the process.
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Five Essential Books For Understanding Haitian History by Marlene Daut đđč
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Five Essential Books For Understanding Haitian History
After waging a thirteen-year revolution against slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, the islandâs Black freedom fighters declared their independence on January 1, 1804. In the countryâs âŠ
https://lithub.com/five-essential-books-for-understanding-haitian-history/
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Job AdâEditor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly
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Editor of William and Mary Quarterly
Job Requisition: JR100984 Editor of William and Mary Quarterly (Open) Job Posting Title: Editor of William and Mary Quarterly Department: CC00007 WM001 | PRES | OIEAHC - Omohundro Institute Job Family...
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti's first post-independence ruler, was not just a violent revolutionary, but a leader who dedicated himself to eliminating slavery and fighting for freedom at great personal cost. A new biography by
@juliagaffield.bsky.social
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Reassessing the Haitian revolutionary leaderâs legacy
Historian Julia Gaffield discusses her recent biography on Haitiâs first leader, whose life she argues was unfairly tarnished by biased verdicts of history.
https://buff.ly/kDyjMou
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Henry Snow
about 1 month ago
My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it
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Terra Nova
A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264357/terra-nova/
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Yale University Press London đ
about 1 month ago
Explore this reading list of ten Yale books for Black History Month 2025 featuring books on Britainâs first black Olympic medal winner, the first and last king of Haiti, Regency Londonâs most famous street performer and more.
yalebooks.co.uk/black-histor...
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Black History Month Reading List - Yale University Press London
Explore this reading list of ten Yale books for Black History Month 2025 featuring books on Britain's first black Olympic medal winner, the first and last king of Haiti, Regency London's most famous s...
https://yalebooks.co.uk/black-history-month-reading-list/
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Haitian archivist Patrick Tardieu on Haiti's historic documents in the archives in London:
lenouvelliste.com/article/2605...
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Un séjour aux Archives de Londres
Conservateur de la BibliothĂšque HaĂŻtienne des Spiritains, jâaccueillais rĂ©guliĂšrement des Ă©tudiants et des chercheurs.
https://lenouvelliste.com/article/260503/un-sejour-aux-archives-de-londres
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José Juan Pérez Meléndez
about 1 month ago
Launching my new seminar on Saint-Domingue and the world of the Haitian Revolutionâlooking fwd to discussing excellent works, esp. new books by Marlene Daut,
@juliagaffield.bsky.social
, and
@malickghachem.bsky.social
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Joseph Rezek
about 1 month ago
When Jefferson trashed Wheatleyâs book, he hadnât yet published a book of his own. I think about that sometimes.
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In 1903, the Haitian historian Jules Rosemond argued in preparation for the centenary of Haitian independence that Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born on September 20, 1758, and today we commemorate the life of this leader of the Haitian Revolution.
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Princeton University Press
about 2 months ago
LISTEN: The Migrantâs Jail author
@briannanofil.bsky.social
spoke with
@npr.org
âs Throughline podcast about the history of migrant detention in the US:
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The Business of Migrant Detention : Throughline
The U.S. immigration detention system is spread out across federal facilities, private prisons, state prisons, and county jails. Itâs grown under both Democratic and Republican presidents. And itâsâŠ
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5544347/the-business-of-migrant-detention
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Brianna Nofil
about 2 months ago
I got to talk to
@npr.org
about sheriffs, jails, and all the ways people have made money from locking up migrants. (Featuring many stories from my book!)
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Academic Life đđ
about 2 months ago
@juliagaffield.bsky.social
joins us to share her new book I Have Avenged America âŹïž
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
@yalepress.bsky.social
#BookSky
#HistorySky
#EduSky
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"The Business of Migrant Detention" on
@npr.org
's Throughline featuring my colleague
@briannanofil.bsky.social
talking about her book The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration (
@princetonupress.bsky.social
)
www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...
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The Business of Migrant Detention : Throughline
The U.S. immigration detention system is spread out across federal facilities, private prisons, state prisons, and county jails. Itâs grown under both Democratic and Republican presidents. And itâs be...
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/18/nx-s1-5544347/the-business-of-migrant-detention
about 2 months ago
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Ana Lucia Araujo
about 2 months ago
Join the
#Slaveryarchive
book club next Saturday, September 20, 2:00 PM EST to discuss
@juliagaffield.bsky.social
's new brilliant book I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom (Yale University Press, 2025), register here
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"By weaving together rich context and the personal experiences of Christophe and Dessalines, I put down these books with a much better understanding of the Haitian Revolution." Review essay by
@bramhubbell.com
for
@liberatingnarratives.com
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I went on the Virginia Humanities show "With Good Reason" to talk about the Haitian Revolution:
withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/lafa...
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Lafayetteâs Return - With Good Reason
50 years after Lafayette sailed America from France, he toured all 24 states and was greeted by adoring hordes.
https://withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/lafayettes-return/
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Alyssa S.
2 months ago
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is doing a zoom book talk in a few weeks on a Saturday if you want to go!
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Bram Hubbell
2 months ago
Finishing up these two new excellent books.
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Lou Roper
2 months ago
Sighting of long-awaited
@csschmitt.bsky.social
volume!
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Happy (early) Pub Day,
@csschmitt.bsky.social
! Can't wait to read it!
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Marlene Daut's _The First and Last King of Haiti_ is on the shortlist for the Cundill Prize! The book is an excellent biography, a compelling narration of the Haitian Revolution, and a brilliant meditation on historical methodology!
www.cundillprize.com/news/2025sho...
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The 2025 Cundill History Prize Shortlist | Cundill Prize
The jurors have chosen 8 exceptional titles to be shortlisted for the 2025 Cundill History Prize.
https://www.cundillprize.com/news/2025shortlist
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Today is the UK pub date for my book _I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haitiâs Fight for Freedom_ (
@yalebooks.bsky.social
âŹ)!
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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I Have Avenged America - Yale University Press London
A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haitiâs fight for independence from French colonial rul...
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
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Rosa
2 months ago
Did I buy this book in part because the cover looks so awesome (maaaaybe) but I just finished it and liked it a lot. The early years of his life and how plantation slavery worked in Haiti was especially interesting. Plus the round up of how Dessalines has been portrayed was helpful
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Paul Rosenberg
2 months ago
Once 4 billion chestnut trees spanned most of the Eastern US, before a blight destroyed them. Restoration efforts began in 1985, with story-telling as a key component. It's the most far reaching example of trees in public history in a new essay collection: 1/x
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The Trees at the Center of Our History
From the Pequot War to the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, trees have played a central role in North American history.
https://barnraisingmedia.com/the-trees-at-the-center-of-american-history/
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Kevin Elliott
3 months ago
The most successful slave revolt in history, wherein the enslaved took back their freedom themselves
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Ferret Guy
3 months ago
Devoured this, great book!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
3 months ago
âEternal hatred of France!â That one also sticks out in mind.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
3 months ago
And the white world lost its mind, never for it to be found again. Still, worth it. Liberté ou la Mort!!
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234 years ago, enslaved men and women rose in revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. They secured the first permanent abolition of slavery, and eventually declared Haitian independence on January 1, 1804. đđč
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Perspective | Haiti was the first nation to permanently ban slavery
Why this matters today
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/12/haiti-was-first-nation-permanently-ban-slavery/
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Casey Schmitt
3 months ago
A nice cocktail to celebrate the end of a long road! đïž
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jamelle
3 months ago
i remember when jd vance blamed the haitian immigrants to springfield for rising home prices. well, the prices will come down, because a mass departure of haitian workers will crash the local economy.
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An Ohio City Faces a Future Without Haitian Workers: âItâs Not Going to Be Goodâ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/springfield-ohio-haitian-immigrants-trump.html
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Cate Denial
3 months ago
A wonderfully provocative piece from
@audreywatters.bsky.social
on LLMs as MLM schemes.
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LLM as MLM
No one likes to be wrong. But perhaps what bothers people even more than making a mistake is being made a fool, being tricked or duped. It's no surprise then that many folks bristle at the assertion ...
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/llm-as-mlm/?ref=second-breakfast-newsletter
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New from Marlene Daut on writing a Haitian Revolution screenplay!
marlenedaut.com/blog/adventu...
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Adventures in a New Genre: On Screenwriting! | Marlene L. Daut
By Marlene L. Daut Back in 2021, I wrote an article called âWhy did Bridgerton erase Haiti?â. In the article I asked a deceptively simple question:âIf people want to see Black aristocracy on scre...
https://marlenedaut.com/blog/adventures-in-a-new-genre-on-screenwriting-by-marlene-l-daut-nbsp-back
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Andy Solages
3 months ago
Gaffield's work is necessary. I'm grateful she put in the work so we have such a high-quality book on Dessalines. A must-read.
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Public Books
3 months ago
The reputation of Haitiâs founder, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, has been tarnished by often racist misconceptions and misinterpretations. Julia Gaffieldâs new book seeks to correct the record and situate his pivotal role in the transatlantic abolitionist movement:
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âIndependence and Abolition Went Hand in Handâ: Julia Gaffield on Jean-Jacques Dessalines
âSecuring the first permanent, universal, and immediate abolition of slavery was Jean-Jacques Dessalinesâs legacy.â
https://www.publicbooks.org/independence-and-abolition-went-hand-in-hand-julia-gaffield-on-jean-jacques-dessalines-and-the-haitian-revolution/
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Public Books
3 months ago
New at PB, Marlene L. Daut interviews
@juliagaffield.bsky.social
about her new book on Haitiâs founder, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a figure who has been âunjustly maligned in historical narratives & overshadowed by more popular figures such as Toussaint Louverture.â
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âIndependence and Abolition Went Hand in Handâ: Julia Gaffield on Jean-Jacques Dessalines
âSecuring the first permanent, universal, and immediate abolition of slavery was Jean-Jacques Dessalinesâs legacy.â
https://www.publicbooks.org/independence-and-abolition-went-hand-in-hand-julia-gaffield-on-jean-jacques-dessalines-and-the-haitian-revolution/
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Paul Rosenberg
3 months ago
ICYMI: When Trump maliciously demonized Haitian immigrants last year, he was only the latest to malign those from the true birthplace of freedom from slavery. A new biography of Jean-Jacque Dessalines by
@juliagaffield.bsky.social
illuminates how it all began. My
@liberalcurrents.com
interview:
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Greg Jenner
3 months ago
Hereâs another brilliant historical biography â Prof Marlene Daut was our expert guest on BBC Youâre Dead To Me for our Haitian Revolution episode. In this new book, she explores the notorious life of King Henri Christophe of Haiti, and finds a much more complicated story
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Evan Narcisse
3 months ago
This interview is great!
@juliagaffield.bsky.social
's book was already on my TBR list but it's still a joy to read about the research that's behind the recontextualization of this important historical figure.
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Paul Rosenberg
3 months ago
Liberalism ENABLED the end of slavery, but did not drive it. Slaves themselves ended slavery & Haiti was founded as a result. A new biography by
@juliagaffield.bsky.social
tells the story of Jean-Jacque Dessalines, who France demonized in revenge. My
@liberalcurrents.com
interview:
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Eric Brandom
3 months ago
Great interview with
@juliagaffield.bsky.social
on and around her new biography of Dessalines. Looking forward to reading!
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Doghouse Reilly
3 months ago
Loved this book so Iâm looking forward to the interview?
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