2019 marks the 15th-anniversary of the publication of Laurent Dubois’s Avengers of the New World (2004), the first narrative history of the Haitian Revolution to be published in the English language since the landmark appearance of C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins in 1938. Dubois' book heralded a new era of interest in the Haitian Revolution among Anglophone scholars. Several newer books that were published in the wake of these earlier works include Julia Gaffield’s Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition After Revolution (2015) and Grégory Pierrot’s The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (2019). In this, the inaugural event of the Conversations in Caribbean Studies Colloquium, these authors will discuss the broad impact of studies of the New World Avenger on the fields of Haitian, Caribbean, Atlantic, and American historical, literary, and cultural studies.

Introductory remarks by Marlene Daut, Associate Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute and Associate Professor of African American and American Studies

Panelists included:

• Laurent DuBois, Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History and founder of the Forum for Scholars & Publics at Duke University
• Julia Gaffield, Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University
• Grégory Perriot, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford