Brandon Byrd

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

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, Celia Jane Allen,

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by blogger Brandon

On the morning of April 9, 1968, the Haitian political elite joined the US diplomatic core in the Port-au-Prince Cathedral.

In the summer of 1777, as musket balls flew about New York’s battlefields, José de Gálvez felt confident. The American