Cover of Secret Among the Blacks

A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution (2023)

The cover for our 2016 edition of Slave Revolution.

Slave Revolution in the Caribbean: A Brief History with Documents (2016)

The second edition adds some exciting new documents, including an excerpt from the 1758 interrogation of the “poisoner” Makandal and a detailed print of the fall of Cap Français in 1793, by the artist who painted our cover image.

The cover of Plantation Machine

The Plantation Machine (2016)

Our twin portrait of Saint-Domingue and Jamaica came out on University of Pennsylvania Press in June 2016 and became available in paperback in 2019.

Cover of Assumed Identities

Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World (2010)

Features an introduction by Franklin Knight and chapters by Rebecca Scott (Cuba),  Trevor Burnard (Jamaica), Rebecca Goetz (Chesapeake), Sidney Chaloub (Brazil), and John Garrigus (Saint-Domingue).

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Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue (2006)

In 2007, Before Haiti won the Gilbert Chinard Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies. The paperback edition came out in 2010.

Slave Revolution in the Caribbean: A Brief History with Documents (2006)

Slave Revolution in the Caribbean