Announcing the 2024 Short List!
Emilie Boone | Joan L. Bryant | Orisanmi Burton | Clay Cane | Marlene L. Daut | Jonathan Eig | Grace Elizabeth Hale | Victor Luckerson |
Matthew D. Morrison | Amrita Chakrabarti Myers |
Dylan C. Penningroth | Ashley Robertson Preston |
Barbara D. Savage | Chad L. Williams
The following fourteen books were chosen from 118 eligible submissions. Books are judged based on their scholarship and accessibility, with an eye toward identifying exceptional works that spark dialogue within and across social and racial groups. These books also represent the Museum’s core belief that understanding the history of African Americans is integral to understanding our collective American history.
Awakening the Ashes:
An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
Marlene L. Daut
In Awakening the Ashes, Marlene L. Daut situates famous and lesser-known 18th- and 19th-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political thinkers within the global history of ideas, showing how their systems of knowledge and interpretation took center stage in the Age of Revolutions. While modern understandings of freedom and equality are often linked to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man or the US Declaration of Independence, Daut argues that the more immediate reference should be to what she calls the 1804 Principle that no human being should ever again be colonized or enslaved, an idea promulgated by the Haitians who, against all odds, upended French empire.
Published by University of North Carolina Press
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