Julia Gaffield is associate professor of history at the College of William & Mary and is the interim editor of the William and Mary Quarterly. She is the author of Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2015) and is writing a biography of Jean-Jacques Dessalines (under contract with Yale University Press).
Julia Gaffield
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Writing on Public Books
“We Have Dared to Be Free”
Haiti truly manifested the principles of liberty, but international resistance and racism have worked for 220 years to undermine its sovereignty.
Atlantic Slavery: An Eternal War
Both violent surveillance and disease risk were integral to Atlantic slavery. That same war against Black people continues today.
