Marlene Daut & Arielle Xena Alterwaite | The Haitian Indemnity of 1825 and the Afterlives of Colonialism

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Marlene Daut teaches courses in anglophone and francophone Caribbean, African American, and French colonial literary and historical studies at Yale University. Primarily a literary and intellectual historian of the Caribbean, she writes about the history of the Haitian Revolution, literary cultures of the greater Caribbean, and racial politics in global media, especially as appears in film, television, and art. Learn more.

Arielle Xena Alterwaite is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. She is a historian who studies slavery, emancipation, and political economy in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe with a particular focus on France and its empire. Alterwaite's research broadly explores how financial speculation and sovereign debt shaped imperial expansion and became key elements of the early modern and modern world. Learn more.

DISCUSSANT

Ada Ferrer, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University

 

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