Cette série explore l'histoire complexe et les héritages durables de la traite négrière et de l'esclavage. Elle adopte des approches internationales et interdisciplinaires pour comprendre ses effets culturels et sociaux sur toutes les sociétés impliquées. L'accent est mis sur la résistance, la commémoration et l'interprétation de l'esclavage dans le cadre d'un programme plus large d'histoire publique.
An introduction to the Afro-diasporic literature of the Haitian Revolution, Beyond the Slave Narrative frames the unique contributions to anti-colonial thought of Haitian general Jean-Jacques Dessalines and other singular Haitian voices.
These links have long been a source of critical fascination, generating several landmark analyses, ranging from Fernando Ortis's Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (1940) and Noel Deerr's monumental two-volume The History of Sugar (1949-50) to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985).
A literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about `race' affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race.