Julia Gaffield Honors Dessalines’ Vision and His Gift of Liberty to the World

Julia Gaffield, Associate Professor of History at William & Mary, through AVENGED AMERICA … JEAN JACQUES DESSALINES and Haiti's Fight for Freedom, 340 pages, published by Yale University Press, has done more than present “a moving and human portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary,” Haiti’s first head of state, of the world’s first Black republic. Through “new and in-depth” research, her book takes aim at a historiography that has caricatured Dessalines as a “barbarian.&rdqu