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Named a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

The essential biography of the controversial freedom-fighter, revolutionary, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. In The First and Last King of Haiti, a...

The dramatic story of a pivotal figure in the Haitian Revolution, who shook the Atlantic world to its core.

Born to an enslaved mother in Grenada, Henry Christophe first fought to overthrow the British in North America, before joining the Black freedom fighters of Saint-Domingue in their quest to gain independence from France. But, at one point,...

Co-winner, Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Society for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

Gold Prize, Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE)

Named a finalist for the 2024 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

Honorable mention for the 2024 Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize at...

Co-winner of the 2019 Haitian Studies Book Award

Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey’s extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the...

Named as a 2016 Prose Awards Honorable Mention at the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the category of European/World History.

Received 2016 Honorable Mention for the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Prize of the Caribbean Studies Association.

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was an event of monumental...

From nineteenth-century antislavery pamphleteering to accounts of ecological catastrophe in twenty-first-century fiction, Haitian literature has resounded across the globe since the nation’s revolutionaries declared independence in 1804. Starting with pre-revolutionary writing, including the emergence of Haitian Creole letters, extending to the...

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was the only antislavery and anticolonial uprising led by New World Africans to result in the creation of an independent and slavery-free nation state. The momentousness of this thirteen-year-long war generated thousands of pages of writing. This anthology brings together for the first time a transnational and...

L'esclavage, la colonisation et le racisme pensés par des intellectuels noirs dans les premières nations indépendantes de l'ère des révolutions

Nous avons osé être libres, osons l’être par nous-mêmes et pour nous-mêmes ; imitons l’enfant qui grandit : son propre poids brise la lisière qui lui devient inutile et l’entrave dans sa marche. Quel...