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Publications

African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861. Champaign and Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

Co-editor, Encyclopedia of African American History. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio, 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

Co-editor, We Shall Independent Be: African American Place Making and the Struggle to Claim Space in the United States. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

“A Land of Promise: Emigration and Pennsylvania’s Black Elite in the Era of the Haitian Revolution” in The Civil War in Pennsylvania: The African American Experience. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Senator John Heinz History Center, 2013, pp. 96-132. Recipient of the 2014 American Association of State and Local History Award of Merit.

“A Pact With the Devil?: The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti,” Origins e-History, online journal, February 2011.

“The Black Republic: The Influence of the Haitian Revolution on Black Political Consciousness, 1816-1862,” in African Americans and the Haitian Revolution: Selected Essays and Historical Documents, eds. Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon. Routledge, 2009. Republished in Haitian History: New Perspectives, ed., Alyssa Sepinwall. New York: Routledge Press, 2012.