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Thanks to Dr. Clayborne Carson and Dr. Margaret Washington, who introduced me to to the practice of historical research, I embarked on a journey that has led me to become a professor of African American and African Diaspora history.
Dr. Leslie Alexander is the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University, where she teaches early African American, African Diaspora, and U.S. history. Her teaching and research interests focus on slavery, Black political and intellectual thought, and resistance movements.
Leslie M. Harris, author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863. Purchase. Edited by Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon, this collection explores how the Haitian Revolution shaped the art, culture, and political expression of Black people in the United States.
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Fear of a Black Republicseeks to radically transform how people across the nation think about Haiti and Haitian history. Following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, news outlets around the country reported, incessantly, that Haiti is “the poorest country in the western hemisphere” until it began to sound more like a chant of acc...
Nearly fifteen thousand Haitians crossed the Rio Grande River in September 2021, desperately seeking asylum in the United States. Toting small children, and lugging their remaining belongings, they had traveled for months or even years. Painstakingly making their way through numerous South American countries, often suffering unspeakable cruelties, ...
Perhaps the most surprising discovery I made while conducting research for this book occurred when I went to the National Archives to examine petitions that were submitted to Congress in the 1840s, demanding formal recognition for Haiti’s right to sovereignty. I knew that abolitionists had created and circulated such petitions, but I had no idea th...
I will always be deeply grateful to the Society for the Humanities, and its staff, for the opportunity to learn and thrive in such an extraordinary intellectual community during my fellowship year. I was actually in the final stages of completing this book when the fellowship began, and I was beginning a new project focused on the long history of p...
My recent book, Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States explores the origins of Black internationalism at the dawn of the nineteenth century and traces its growth and expansion over more than a century.
Dec 27, 2022 · Leslie M. Alexander’s study reveals the untold story of how free and enslaved Black people in the United States defended the young Caribbean nation from forces intent on maintaining slavery and white supremacy.
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