Books
- With John Garrigus. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History With Documents. Bedford Press, 2006.
- Les Vengeurs du Nouveau Monde: Histoire de la Révolution haïtienne. Editions Les Perseides, 2006. Translation of Avengers of the New World
- Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
- A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. Published for the Omohundro Institute by the University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
- Les esclaves de la République: l’histoire oubliée de la première émancipation, 1789-1794. Calmann-Lévy,, 1998.
Articles Accepted in Collection
- "The French Atlantic." Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal. Ed. Jack Greene and Philip Morgan. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Articles in a Journal
- With Bernard Camier. "Voltaire, Zaïre, Dessalines: Le Théâtre des Lumières dans L’Atlantique français." Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 54:4 (December, 2007): 39-69.
- "Capturing Louverture." Small Axe 23 (June, 2007): 177-185.
- "The Haitian Revolution and the Sale of Louisiana." The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts in the South 44:3 (Spring, 2007): 18-41.
- "Histoires d’esclavage en France et aux Etats-Unis." Esprit (February, 2007).
- "'Vivre Libre ou Mourir!' Haiti and Guadeloupe in the Revolutionary Era." Jamaican Historical Review XXIII (2007): 1-15.
- With Erol Josué. "Le Vodou, Miroir de l’histoire: Dialogue." Tabou: Revue du Musée d’Ethnologie de Genève 5 (2007): 325-340.
- "Solitude’s Statue: Confronting the Past in the French Caribbean." Outre-Mers 350-351 (June, 2006): 27-38.
- "An Enslaved Enlightenment: Re-Thinking the Intellectual History of the French Atlantic." Social History 31:1 (February, 2006): 1-14.
- "La restauration de l’esclavage à la Guadeloupe, 1802-1802." Cahiers du Brésil Contemporain 53-54 (2004): 149-162.
- "Is the French Caribbean Postcolonial?." Francophone Postcolonial Studies 1:2 (Fall, 2003): 46-50.
- "’Citoyens et Amis!’ Esclavage, citoyenneté et République dans les Antilles françaises à l’époque révolutionnaire." Annales 58:2 (March-April 2003): 281-304.
- "Our Three Colors: The King, the Republic and the Political Culture of Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue." Historical Reflections 29:1 (Spring, 2003): 83-102.
- "La République Métissée: Citizenship, Colonialism, and the Borders of French History." Cultural Studies 14:1 (Winter, 2000): 15-34.
- "Republican Racism and Anti-Racism: A Caribbean Genealogy." French Politics, Culture and Society 18:3 (Fall, 2000): 5-17. Reprinted in Herrick Chapman and Laura
Frader, eds., Race in France:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the
Politics of Difference (New York: Berghahn
Books, 2004).
- "Haunting Delgrès." Radical History Review 78 (Fall, 2000): 166-177.
- "Republic At Sea: On the Margins of the New Europe." Transition 79 (June, 1999): 64-70.
- "‘The Price of Liberty’: Victor Hugues and the Administration of Freedom in Guadeloupe, 1794-1802." William and Mary Quarterly Quarterly 3rd series, LVI:2 (April, 1999): 363-392. Reprinted in Gary Kates, The French
Revolution: Recent Debates & Controversies,
2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2006)
- "L’Accueil des Réfugiés Haïtiens aux Etats-Unis." Hommes et Migration 1213 (May-June 1998): 47-59.
- "A Spoonful of Blood: Blaming Haitians for AIDS." Science as Culture 6:26 (Winter, 1997): 7-43.
- "Blood Stigma: Blaming Haitians for AIDS." Proteus 9:2 (Fall, 1992): 20-24.
Articles in a Collection
- "Maroons in the Archives: The Uses of the Past in the French Caribbean." Archives, Documentation and Institutions of Social Memory Ed. Francis X. Blouin, Jr. and William G. Roseberg. University of Michigan Press,
2006, 291-300.
- "Citizen-Soldiers: Emancipation and Military Service in the Revolutionary French Caribbean." The Arming of Slaves from the Classical Era to the Civil War Ed. Christopher Brown and Philip Morgan. Yale University Press,
2006.
- "History’s Quarrel: The Future of the Past in the French Caribbean." Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History Ed. Juanita de Barros, Audra Diptee and David V. Trotman. Markus Weiner Publishers,
2006, 213-230.
- "The Revolutionary Period in Haiti, 1791-1804." Common Routes: St. Domingue – Louisiana, (Exhibit Catalogue). Historic New Orleans Collection,
2006.
- "In Search of the Haitian Revolution." Francophone Studies: Postcolonial Issues and the Study of the French-Speaking World Ed. Charles Forsdick and David Murphy. Arnold Publishers,
2003.
- "Inscribing Race in the Revolutionary French Antilles." The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France Ed. Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall. Duke University Press,
2003.
- "The Citizen’s Trance: The Haitian Revolution and the Motor of History." Magic and Modernity Ed. Peter Pels and Birgit Meyer. Stanford University Press,
2003.
- "Troubled Water: Rebellion and Republicanism in the French Caribbean, 1798-1802." Thomas Jefferson and The Revolution of 1800 Ed. Jim Horn, Jan Lewis, and Peter Onuf. University of Virginia Press,
2002.
- "African Citizens: Slavery, Freedom and Migration during the French Revolution,”." Migration Controls in 19th-century Europe Ed. Andreas Fahrmeir and Patrick Weil. Berghahn Books,
2002.
- "The Promise of Revolution: St. Domingue and the Struggle for Autonomy in Guadeloupe, 1798-1802." The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World Ed. David Geggus. University of South Carolina Press,
2001.
- ""Man's Darkest Hours": Maleness, Travel and Anthropology." Women Writing Culture Ed. Ruth Behar and Deborah Gordon. University of California Press,
1995.
Book Reviews
- "A Free Man". The Nation (April 16, 2007).
- "Review of David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World". American Historical Review 112:1 (February, 2007): 165.
- "Review of Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny and Desire". Slavery and Abolition 26:3 (December, 2005): 411-415.
- "Review of Tim Matthewson, A Pro-Slavery Foreign Policy". American Historical Review 110:4 (October, 2005): 1167-1168.
- "Review of Frédéric Régent, Esclavage, métissage, liberté: La Révolution française en Guadeloupe, 1789-1802". H-France 5:76 (July, 2005).
- "Review of David Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies". H-France 3:7 (February, 2003).
- "The Road to 1848: Interpreting French Anti-Slavery". Slavery and Abolition 22:3 (December, 2001): 150-157.
- "Vodou and History". Comparative Studies in Society and History 43:1 (January, 2001): 92-100.
- "Review of Myriam Cottias, ed. D’une abolition, l’autre: Anthologie raisonnée de textes consacrés à la seconde abolition de l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises". Histoire, Economie, Société 19:2 (2000): 299-300.
- "Review of Dora Weiner, The Citizen Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris". Comparative Studies in Society and History 38:2 (April, 1996): 402-404.
Occasional Writing
- "Royal Rebellion in the Caribbean Slave Quarters." The Drawbridge 6 (Fall, 2007): 9.
- "Haiti's Bitter History of Hope." Los Angeles Times (February 6, 2006).
Interviews
- With Madison Smartt Bell. "The Haitian Revolution at the Crossroads: A Discussion Between Madison Smartt Bell and Laurent Dubois." Common-Place.org 7:4 (July, 2007).
- With Michel Giraud, Marc-Olivier Padis, and Patrick Weil. "“Une histoire à transmettre,” interview with Lilian Thuram,." Esprit (February, 2007): 117-123.
Other
- With Michel Giraud. "La Mémoire de l’esclavage en Guadeloupe et en Martinique: Les faits, les discours, et les enjeux." Official Report Submitted to French Ministère d’Outre-Mer (January, 2008).
- "Egalite for All: Human Rights and the Haitian Revolution." I am working as the head consultant with
Koval Films on a documentary on the Haitian
Revolution, which will be aired on PBS in 2008.
Here is the link to a promotional video for
the film.
(2008).