In this authoritative, elegant biography, Daut draws a complex, contradictory portrait of Henry Christophe, also known as King Henry.

“Of course, there should be tons and tons of studies of the Haitian Revolution ... because I also had to know the history of the Revolution. Because in the book, I have to tell the history of the ...

click image for close-up Although there is a large body of visual materials depicting the Haitian ... of the revolution. The first known representations of Toussaint were included in a book ...

Haitian Heritage Month in the Lower Hudson Valley kicked off Saturday with a poetry reading and book launch at Nyack ... and adopted during the Haitian revolution. A small audience listened ...

Daut’s previous book, “Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution,” was a co-winner of the 2024 Frederick Douglas Book Prize. Daut sat down with Yale News to talk about ...

I am a historian of the revolutionary Atlantic world, with a particular focus on the impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. My current book manuscript focuses on the Haitian ...

His book Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (Weslyean University Press, 2024) thinks through jazz as an Afro-Atlantic art form deeply tied to the counter-plantation legacies ...