Based on conference papers., 306 p., Perspectives on the black diaspora's global histories. Includes John Campbell's "How free is "free"? the limits of manumission for enslaved Africans in eighteenth-century British Caribbean sugar society," Beatriz G. Mamigonian's "A harsh and gloomy fate: liberated Africans in the service of the Brazilian state, 1830s-1860s," Stephen G. Hall's "Envisioning an antislavery war: African American historical constructions of the Haitian Revolution in the 1850s," Micol Seigel's "Comparable or connected? afro-diasporic resistance in the United States and Brazil," and Matthew J. Smith's "Race, color, and the Marxist left in pre-Duvalier Haiti." --
