During the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the
modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an …

Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former
slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African …

This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-
inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than …

Nancy van Deusen examines over one hundred lawsuits that indio slaves brought to the
Spanish court in the mid-sixteenth century to gain their freedom. The category indio was …

In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British,
French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, colonial and indigenous people rioted …

Royalist Indians and slaves in the northern Andes engaged with the ideas of the Age of
Revolution (1780–1825), such as citizenship and freedom. Although generally ignored in …

This essay explores the possibilities and limits of decentering Europe by examining the
Haitian Revolution and contemporary invocations of its legacy among political theorists and …

Historians view the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a turning point when
imperial monarchies collapsed and modern nations emerged. Treating this pivotal moment …

A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic
Focusing on Jamaica, Britain's most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth …

Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean,
Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the …