American exceptionalism

How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US

The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, acted as a catalyst for Black Lives Matter protests around the

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. African Americans’ tenuous relationship to American

The study of slavery in New England has experienced something of a revival in the last decade. Given that New