Deze serie duikt in de complexe geschiedenis en blijvende erfenissen van de slavenhandel en slavernij. Het hanteert internationale en interdisciplinaire benaderingen om de culturele en sociale effecten op alle betrokken samenlevingen te begrijpen. De nadruk ligt op verzet, herdenking en de interpretatie van slavernij binnen een bredere agenda voor publieke geschiedenis.
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.