The First and Last King of Haiti: An Interview with Marlene L. Daut | Black Perspectives →

In today’s post, Nathalie Frédéric Pierre, Assistant Professor of History at Howard University, interviews renowned historian Marlene L. Daut about her latest book. Dr. Daut is Professor of French, African American Studies, and History at Yale University. She is the author of The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (Knopf, January 2025); the award-winning Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (UNC Press, 2023); Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave, 2017); and Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Liverpool, 2015).

Read the full article here: https://www.aaihs.org/the-first-and-last-king-of-haiti-an-interview-with-marlene-l-daut/