Julia Gaffield, PhD
@juliagaffield.bsky.social
Historian (she/her)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
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I am thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (June 2025 @yalepress.bsky.social)
The stunning painting is by Haitian-American artist Ulrick Jean-Pierre (ulrickjeanpierre.com)
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The stunning painting is by Haitian-American artist Ulrick Jean-Pierre (ulrickjeanpierre.com)
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Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/
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I feel silly publicizing a book in these times BUT my book describes how constitutional structures allowed the accumulation of generational wealth + rights for settlers and white people. These are the same advantages MAGA is trying to preserve today. Pre-order page:
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I feel silly publicizing a book in these times BUT my book describes how constitutional structures allowed the accumulation of generational wealth + rights for settlers and white people. These are the same advantages MAGA is trying to preserve today. Pre-order page:
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🎯🧵"I now understand after reading this book why enslavers feared any free Black men, whether from foreign or domestic ships, intermixing with their enslaved population."
Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🎯🧵"I now understand after reading this book why enslavers feared any free Black men, whether from foreign or domestic ships, intermixing with their enslaved population."
Ahhhh!! Thank you @unlawfulentries.bsky.social!!! 🙌 I'm so grateful for this review!
Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ahhhh!! Thank you @unlawfulentries.bsky.social!!! 🙌 I'm so grateful for this review!
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@juliagaffield.bsky.social wow what an intro for a biography
November 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
@juliagaffield.bsky.social wow what an intro for a biography
Come hang out with Marlene Daut, Olive Senior, Chantalle Verna, and me at the @miamibookfair.bsky.social in November! #ReadCaribbean #MiamiBookFair
Don't miss Julia Gaffield, author of I Have Avenged America, at a panel on revolutionary figures and marginalized voices with the Miami Book Fair on November 22nd!
RECLAIMING HISTORY: POWER, RESISTANCE & CULTURAL MEMORY – FICTION & NONFICTION - Miami Book Fair
Join us for a conversation about revolutionary figures and marginalized voices. In The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, Marlene Daut explores a riveting life of a man who was born enslaved and eventually crowned himself King Henry I. This essential biography unravels the enigma of the man who was Haiti’s only sovereign, ... Read More
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October 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Come hang out with Marlene Daut, Olive Senior, Chantalle Verna, and me at the @miamibookfair.bsky.social in November! #ReadCaribbean #MiamiBookFair
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absolute dream job for the right person
Job Ad❗Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly
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October 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
absolute dream job for the right person
My interim editorship is over at the end of the academic year and we are hiring a permanent editor of the WMQ! Please share widely!
Job Ad❗Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly
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October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My interim editorship is over at the end of the academic year and we are hiring a permanent editor of the WMQ! Please share widely!
I'm very grateful for this article on my book "I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom" in the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste! @yalepress.bsky.social
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Quand Julia Gaffield fait le portrait de Jean-Jacques Dessalines et de son leg de liberté ...
Julia Gaffield, professeur agrégé d'histoire à William & Mary, à travers “AVENGED AMERICA …JEAN JACQUES DESSALINES and Haiti's Fight for Freedom”, 340 pages, publié par Yale University Press, a fait p...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I'm very grateful for this article on my book "I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom" in the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste! @yalepress.bsky.social
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Happy Jean-Jacques Dessalines Day! By happy coincidence I finished @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's excellent book today, learning the significance of October 17 in the process.
October 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Happy Jean-Jacques Dessalines Day! By happy coincidence I finished @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's excellent book today, learning the significance of October 17 in the process.
Five Essential Books For Understanding Haitian History by Marlene Daut 🇭🇹
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Five Essential Books For Understanding Haitian History
After waging a thirteen-year revolution against slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, the island’s Black freedom fighters declared their independence on January 1, 1804. In the country’s …
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October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Five Essential Books For Understanding Haitian History by Marlene Daut 🇭🇹
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Job Ad❗Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly
williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/det...
williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/det...
Editor of William and Mary Quarterly
Job Requisition: JR100984 Editor of William and Mary Quarterly (Open) Job Posting Title: Editor of William and Mary Quarterly Department: CC00007 WM001 | PRES | OIEAHC - Omohundro Institute Job Family...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Job Ad❗Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti's first post-independence ruler, was not just a violent revolutionary, but a leader who dedicated himself to eliminating slavery and fighting for freedom at great personal cost. A new biography by @juliagaffield.bsky.social offers a full portrait.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Reassessing the Haitian revolutionary leader’s legacy
Historian Julia Gaffield discusses her recent biography on Haiti’s first leader, whose life she argues was unfairly tarnished by biased verdicts of history.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti's first post-independence ruler, was not just a violent revolutionary, but a leader who dedicated himself to eliminating slavery and fighting for freedom at great personal cost. A new biography by @juliagaffield.bsky.social offers a full portrait.
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My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it
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Terra Nova
A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...
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October 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Explore this reading list of ten Yale books for Black History Month 2025 featuring books on Britain’s first black Olympic medal winner, the first and last king of Haiti, Regency London’s most famous street performer and more.
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #bhmuk
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #bhmuk
Black History Month Reading List - Yale University Press London
Explore this reading list of ten Yale books for Black History Month 2025 featuring books on Britain's first black Olympic medal winner, the first and last king of Haiti, Regency London's most famous s...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Explore this reading list of ten Yale books for Black History Month 2025 featuring books on Britain’s first black Olympic medal winner, the first and last king of Haiti, Regency London’s most famous street performer and more.
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #bhmuk
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#blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #bhmuk
Haitian archivist Patrick Tardieu on Haiti's historic documents in the archives in London:
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Un séjour aux Archives de Londres
Conservateur de la Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Spiritains, j’accueillais régulièrement des étudiants et des chercheurs.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Haitian archivist Patrick Tardieu on Haiti's historic documents in the archives in London:
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Launching my new seminar on Saint-Domingue and the world of the Haitian Revolution—looking fwd to discussing excellent works, esp. new books by Marlene Daut, @juliagaffield.bsky.social, and @malickghachem.bsky.social.
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Launching my new seminar on Saint-Domingue and the world of the Haitian Revolution—looking fwd to discussing excellent works, esp. new books by Marlene Daut, @juliagaffield.bsky.social, and @malickghachem.bsky.social.
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When Jefferson trashed Wheatley’s book, he hadn’t yet published a book of his own. I think about that sometimes.
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
When Jefferson trashed Wheatley’s book, he hadn’t yet published a book of his own. I think about that sometimes.
In 1903, the Haitian historian Jules Rosemond argued in preparation for the centenary of Haitian independence that Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born on September 20, 1758, and today we commemorate the life of this leader of the Haitian Revolution.
September 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In 1903, the Haitian historian Jules Rosemond argued in preparation for the centenary of Haitian independence that Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born on September 20, 1758, and today we commemorate the life of this leader of the Haitian Revolution.
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LISTEN: The Migrant’s Jail author @briannanofil.bsky.social spoke with @npr.org’s Throughline podcast about the history of migrant detention in the US:
The Business of Migrant Detention : Throughline
The U.S. immigration detention system is spread out across federal facilities, private prisons, state prisons, and county jails. It’s grown under both Democratic and Republican presidents. And it’s…
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September 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
LISTEN: The Migrant’s Jail author @briannanofil.bsky.social spoke with @npr.org’s Throughline podcast about the history of migrant detention in the US:
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I got to talk to @npr.org about sheriffs, jails, and all the ways people have made money from locking up migrants. (Featuring many stories from my book!)
LISTEN: The Migrant’s Jail author @briannanofil.bsky.social spoke with @npr.org’s Throughline podcast about the history of migrant detention in the US:
The Business of Migrant Detention : Throughline
The U.S. immigration detention system is spread out across federal facilities, private prisons, state prisons, and county jails. It’s grown under both Democratic and Republican presidents. And it’s…
www.npr.org
September 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I got to talk to @npr.org about sheriffs, jails, and all the ways people have made money from locking up migrants. (Featuring many stories from my book!)
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@juliagaffield.bsky.social joins us to share her new book I Have Avenged America ⬇️
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September 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
@juliagaffield.bsky.social joins us to share her new book I Have Avenged America ⬇️
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"The Business of Migrant Detention" on @npr.org's Throughline featuring my colleague @briannanofil.bsky.social talking about her book The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration (@princetonupress.bsky.social)
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The Business of Migrant Detention : Throughline
The U.S. immigration detention system is spread out across federal facilities, private prisons, state prisons, and county jails. It’s grown under both Democratic and Republican presidents. And it’s be...
www.npr.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"The Business of Migrant Detention" on @npr.org's Throughline featuring my colleague @briannanofil.bsky.social talking about her book The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration (@princetonupress.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...
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Join the #Slaveryarchive book club next Saturday, September 20, 2:00 PM EST to discuss @juliagaffield.bsky.social's new brilliant book I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom (Yale University Press, 2025), register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Join the #Slaveryarchive book club next Saturday, September 20, 2:00 PM EST to discuss @juliagaffield.bsky.social's new brilliant book I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom (Yale University Press, 2025), register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
"By weaving together rich context and the personal experiences of Christophe and Dessalines, I put down these books with a much better understanding of the Haitian Revolution." Review essay by @bramhubbell.com for @liberatingnarratives.com
New post!
I discuss how Marlene Daut’s new book on Henry Christophe and Julia Gaffield’s book on Jean-Jacques Dessalines are helpful to world history courses.
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I discuss how Marlene Daut’s new book on Henry Christophe and Julia Gaffield’s book on Jean-Jacques Dessalines are helpful to world history courses.
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www.liberatingnarratives.com/astonish-the-world/
“Astonish the World”: Teaching Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe
Discussion of teaching Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe
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September 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"By weaving together rich context and the personal experiences of Christophe and Dessalines, I put down these books with a much better understanding of the Haitian Revolution." Review essay by @bramhubbell.com for @liberatingnarratives.com