Julia Gaffield, PhD

The 2025 Cundill History Prize Longlist | Cundill Prize The jurors have chosen 15 exceptional titles to be longlisted for the 2025 Cundill History Prize.

Congrats to these authors, but especially to Marlene Daut! 😃 The First and Last King of Haiti is such a good book!!
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I have an autographed copy of @juliagaffield.bsky.social's amazing new book I Have Avenged America, which we will be discussing at the #Slaveryarchive book club on September 20, Saturday, 2:00 PM EST. Go to www.slaveryarchive.com/book-club/20... and register now!

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Thanks, Andrew!

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Join us on September 20, 2025, Saturday, 2:00 PM EST to discuss historian @juliagaffield.bsky.social's new book I Have Avenged America, get the book here yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... and REGISTER here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Little Haiti is vibrant. And it’s facing the same cost of living crisis as neighborhoods across the city.

That's why Brooklyn Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and I are bringing the Democratic Party together around a shared vision for an affordable New York. I am grateful for her endorsement!

the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective

The Oloffson wasn't just a Graham Greene backdrop. It was an incredible art space, a queer space, a space of worship, a space of refuge, a space of gossip, a space of protest, a rare space where multiple worlds intersected and sweat and danced and drank rum together. It was purposefully destroyed.

I'll remember the Oloffson as a sanctuary. Whatever was happening outside its walls -- riot, election, flood -- you could always sit on the old Marine solarium and a take deep breath. Eat some food, drink rum or a Prestige, and meet anyone from anywhere, on their own terms and yours.

Repoze an pè.

This is shattering. The Oloffson wasn't just a hotel. Not even just a landmark or historic site. It was a spiritual home for thousands of people over the years, Haitian and foreigner, including me.

Happy pubday, @kawulf.bsky.social! Thrilled that LINEAGE is here!

Haitian Revolution: The Complex Legacy of Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Vulgar History Jean-Jacques Dessalines was one of the major figures in the Haitian Revolution. He was vilified and demonized during his life and afterwards. Julia Gaffield has written a new biography reckoning with his complex legacy, and she joins us this week to explain his importance to history. Buy a copy of I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques

Author Julia Gaffield was interviewed by the @vulgarhistory.bsky.social  podcast about her book, I Have Avenged America. 

Gritty's a librarian now thx.
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Very excited to have received support from @dlocaribbean.bsky.social to build the teaching resource “Enslavement, Medicine, and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue: A History in the Press”

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Review of Julia Gaffield, “I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom” | Marlene L. Daut By Marlene L. DautWhat a great read! I'm talking about Julia Gaffield’s new book recently published with Yale University Press, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Fr...

Marlene Daut reviewed _I Have Avenged America_ on her blog, and I am so grateful for these thoughtful and generous words 🥹 I admire Marlene and her scholarship so much, so this was really special to read! 🤗
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Good biography and necessary corrective in the narrative around the abolitionist revolutionary

"We're going to stand up for Haiti because you taught the world about freedom. It's time for us to return the favor."

"you taught the world about freedom and it's time for us to return the favor"

hot damn

Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly

Thanks so much for chatting with me, @michaeldeibert.bsky.social!

The book is available now from @yalepress.bsky.social
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Half way through this one. Epic.

"Dessalines should be remembered as somebody who, above all else, prioritized the abolition of slavery." A Conversation with Julia Gaffield

I was very happy to speak with @juliagaffield.bsky.social on @notesfromtheworld.bsky.social to discuss her excellent new book, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/dessalines...

all of this is downstream of the president's (and stephen miller's) obvious racial animus toward haitians!

🎯Just-published ➡️“I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom” by @juliagaffield.bsky.social
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Haiti gets left behind in so many of these conversations and it's a fucking travesty of inhumanity and also how deeply ungrateful because they were the first true western-style Republic in the world

Trump ends TPS for Haitians. More than a half-million people now face deportation Trump ends TPS for Haitians; over a half million now face deportation

DHS claims Haiti is “safe enough” to end TPS, but the State Dept warns Americans not to travel due to kidnappings and crime. The Trump Admin is actively lying to justify ending TPS amid a deadly humanitarian crisis.

This is a deliberate act of cruelty.

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Haiti is so safe right now that Erik Prince is carrying out lethal drone strikes with no oversight from anyone (because there has effectively been no government since the still-unsolved assassination of the last president four years ago) theracket.news/p/mr-prince-...

Is there a 5am editors club??