Julia Gaffield, PhD
Historian (she/her)
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- "Pope Leo XIV’s link to Haiti is part of a broader American story of race, citizenship and migration" -- by @chelseastieber.bsky.social for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv...
- Author copies have arrived!!!! It's real!!! @yalepress.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
- Macron: "Haiti was born of a revolution, faithful to the spirit of 1789, which brilliantly affirmed the universal principles of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity." Ummmmmmm.... no.
- I enjoyed talking with Prof. Horne for Freedom Now about _I Have Avenged America_! And a surprise bonus I was paired with Marlene Daut!! Pre-order (out June 17) --> @yalepress.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... youtu.be/ln4lFkIun7M?...
- A devastating essay by my colleague @briannanofil.bsky.social on youth detention at Guantánamo:
- I'm floored by these blurbs for _I Have Avenged America_ 🥹 @aditaferrer.bsky.social, @professorvbrown.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Jean Casimir, & Marlene Daut are scholars I have looked up to and admired for more than two decades! I am so grateful!🤗 yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
- I am always *so happy* to take photos of authors with their books! I live for this!!! 😀📸📚 Congrats, @profjennyshaw.bsky.social!!
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- Happy Publication Day to Marlene Daut!!! *The First and Last King of Haiti* is out NOW!!!! I am so grateful to have had the chance to celebrate this brilliant scholar and this beautiful book this weekend! @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673225...
- “Remember... that my name has become a horror to all those who want slavery, and that despots and tyrants never utter it unless to curse the day that I was born.” Jean-Jacques Dessalines, January 1, 1804
- page proofs 😵💫
- What amazing company!! Looking forward to this conversation with @araujohistorian.bsky.social and @elotroalex.bsky.social!! @yalepress.bsky.social
- It's here: #Slaveryarchive Most anticipated books of 2025. Pre-order. Repost. Spread the word. Schedule book talks. Assign. Read. www.slaveryarchive.com/most-anticip...
- "as previously stated"
- The co-winners of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize are Marlene Daut for “Awakening the Ashes” (@uncpress.bsky.social) & Sara Johnson for “Encyclopédie Noire:” (OIEAHC and UNC)!!!!!!!! macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
- Excellent book with an amazing cover!! (How many academic books get 1.5 million views on tiktok?!!) www.tiktok.com/@ez.bookdesi...
- "How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration" by Brianna Nofil Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.” www.texasobserver.org/texas-jails-...
- I am really looking forward to participating in the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social Book Club next year!
- welp
- Oh snap! Look who's here!!
- still struggling with this 🤣
- Pre-order Marlene Daut's FIRST AND LAST KING OF HAITI!!! Out January 2025!! Check out the US and UK covers!! 🤩 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673225...
