White Creole Identity on Trial: The Haitian Revolution and Refugees in Louisiana
This post is a part of our “Race and Revolution” series. By Erica Johnson The flight of refugees from the Haitian Revolution intertwined the histories of Louisiana and Saint-Domingue. The story of one...
View ArticleLesec, from Brave Mulato into Blackness?: Defection to France and Spanish...
This post is a part of our “Race and Revolution” series. By Charlton W. Yingling In May 1794, Governor Joaquín García of Spanish Santo Domingo (present-day Dominican Republic) praised the “brave...
View ArticleMonumental Louverture: French/Haitian Sites of Memory and the Commemoration...
This post is a part of our “Race and Revolution” series. By Nathan H. Dize In May 2017, France celebrated its eleventh day commemorating the Abolition of Slavery. Throughout the Republic, mayors gave...
View ArticleBeyond Race: Civil War, Regionalism, and Ideology in Early Post-Independence...
This post is a part of our “Race and Revolution” series. By Chelsea Stieber Given the growth in Haitian Studies over the last twenty years or so, the Haitian Revolution and its relationship to the Age...
View ArticleChallenging Lafayette’s Legacy: Race and Republicanism in France and the...
This post is a part of the “Race and Revolution” Series. By Aurélia Aubert In March 1825, Achille Murat, a recent settler in Florida and nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, heard that the Marquis de...
View ArticleThe Revolution of 1848 in Senegal: Emancipation and Representation
This post is a part of the “Race and Revolution” Series. By Jenna Nigro The French Revolution of 1848 sparked the abolition of slavery in France’s colonies, transforming the way race, freedom, and...
View ArticleThe Periodical Patria and Racial Mobilization in the Last War for Cuban...
This post is a part of the “Race and Revolution” Series. By Oleski Miranda Navarro The use of periodicals to promote political reform proliferated in the nineteenth-century Americas. For example, in...
View ArticleA Hidden Caribbean Revolution? Race and Revolution in Venezuela, 1789-1817
This post is a part of the “Race and Revolution” Series. By Frédéric Spillemaeker The wave of revolutionary sentiment from the 1790s to Independence questioned the social and racial inequalities that...
View ArticleIndigenous People and Peruvian Independence: A Polemical Historiography
This post is a part of the “Race and Revolution” Series. By Silvia Escanilla Huerta The role of indigenous people in the process of independence in Peru has always been controversial in the...
View ArticleNational Peasants: The Revolutionary Politics of Identity in MNR’s Bolivia
By Elena McGrath The revolutionaries who took power in Bolivia after arming workers and peasants in April of 1952 believed that they would be the first to bring Bolivia into the modern world. The...
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