Philip Kaisary: 2 books

Philip Kaisary shows how twentieth-century writers, artists, and intellectuals—through a range of genres and languages—understood and reinvented the birth of the world's first independent black republic: Haiti.

Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation...