Esta serie profundiza en la compleja historia y los legados perdurables del comercio de esclavos y la esclavitud. Adopta enfoques internacionales e interdisciplinarios para comprender sus efectos culturales y sociales en todas las sociedades involucradas. Se pone énfasis en la resistencia, la conmemoración y la interpretación de la esclavitud dentro de una agenda más amplia de historia pública.
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.