Robert L Paquette

Biographic Data

ID401267
NAMERobert L Paquette
GIVEN NAMESRobert L
FAMILY NAMEPaquette
SIGNATUREPAQUETTE R L
AFFILIATIONSHamilton College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS67
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT28
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Bernard Bailyn: An Historian to Learn From

    Open AccessRobert L PaquetteARTICLEAcademic Questions2021

    A review of Bernard Bailyn's "Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades

  • Can We Talk? Life under Frankfurt Rules

    Open AccessJ Scott Kenney, Robert L Paquette et al.ARTICLEAcademic Questions2018

  • Slave Resistance

    Open AccessRobert L PaquetteCHAPTERThe Cambridge World History of…2017

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  • The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016

    Open AccessB W Higman, David Northrup et al.BOOKCambridge World History of Slavery2017

    Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. Issues discussed inclu…

  • Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic

    Robert L PaquetteARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    The Saint-Domingue Revolution and its impact on slavery in the Americas no longer remain understudied subjects. In light of burgeoning recent scholarship, C. L. R. James's Black Jacobins (1939), whatever its limitations, laid out in poetic style for future investigators the momentousness of the event and the greatness of its most conspicuous leader, Toussaint Louverture. He deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Alexander Hamilton and Nap…

  • The Mind of Roger Taney: New Light on the Dred Scott Decision

    Open AccessRobert L PaquetteARTICLEAcademic Questions2016

    George Payne Rainsford James (1799–1860) arrived in the United States for the first time on the eve of Independence Day, 1850. He deplanked with his family from the steamship Washington in New York City after a two-week transatlantic crossing from Southampton, England. This “celebrated,” “distinguished,” and “renowned” British man of letters had published works of history and dozens of popular romantic novels. He considered planting roots in New …

  • Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World . By Michael Guasco

    Robert L PaquetteARTICLEJournal of Social History2016

    In his polemical riposte to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Thomas Paine declared it to be an unspeakable violation of the natural rights of man that one person should be owned as the property of another. In the antebellum United States, abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison seized on the point and banged it like a sledge as part of a broadening indictment of the antebellum South and its slaveholding planters. L…

  • Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844, written by Aisha K. Finch

    Open AccessRobert L PaquetteARTICLENew West Indian Guide / Nieuwe…2016

  • The Unemancipated Country: Eugene Genovese’s Discovery of the Old South

    Open AccessRobert L PaquetteARTICLEAcademic Questions2014

  • The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South

    Robert L PaquetteARTICLEJournal of American History2014

    Journal Article The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South Get access Scott P. Marler. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvi, 317 pp. $95.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 261–262, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau284 Published: 01 June 2014

  • Michael L. NICHOLLS. Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy

    Robert L PaquetteARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    Journal Article Michael L. Nicholls. Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy. Get access Michael L. Nicholls. Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy. (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series.) Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 2012. Pp. x, 248. $42.50. Robert L. Paquette Robert L. Paquette Alexander Hamilton Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histori…

  • French Caribbean

    John D Garrigus, John Garrigus et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in the French Caribbean. Pierre d'Esnambuc, a Norman sailor, planted France's first Caribbean colony on the tiny Lesser Antillean island of St Christopher in 1625. The settlement contained several dozen slaves. Although Great Britain removed this French foothold at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), slavery expanded under French auspices, albeit in …

  • Internal Slave Trades

    Michael Tadman, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article reviews scholarship on internal slave trades in the Americas. Intra-regional slave trades in the Americas have often left few records and have been little noticed by historians. In many cases, historians have probably ignored significant inter-regional trades that pre-dated the era of abolition. The internal slave trades that have been most researched are long-distance trades that operated under the critical attention of active aboli…

  • Religion and Slavery

    Douglas Ambrose, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article reviews scholarship on the religious lives of slaves. The emergent field of Atlantic history has profoundly influenced scholarship on the response of African slaves to Christianity, the nature of black Christianity in the Americas, and the ways that black Christianity differed from that of whites. The study of the religious lives of enslaved peoples in the Americas has benefited enormously from the work of historians and anthropologi…

  • The Origins of Slavery in the Americas

    John J Mccusker, Russell R Menard et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article offers an overview of the rise of African slavery in English America. Several propositions are useful in ordering the historical record. The most important is that transitions to African slavery in the several colonies of England's emerging empire can be better understood if Britain's Atlantic world is approached as a single if imperfect and fragile labour market, and if variations in the composition of the workforce among colonies a…

  • Slave Culture

    Kevin Dawson, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article reviews scholarship on slave culture and the slave experience. Historians of the American South have had an interest in slavery since the early twentieth century but not until fairly recently have they paid sustained attention to the enslaved. Historians have begun to examine slaves, providing a bottom-up analysis of how slavery and slaves shaped their culture, daily lives, and southern white culture generally. This more recent empha…

  • Biology and African Slavery

    Kenneth F Kiple, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article reviews scholarship on the biology of African slaves. Mother Africa ensured that her sons and daughters could tolerate a disease environment sufficiently harsh that it served as a barrier to European outsiders for many centuries, keeping them confined to the coast and, save for some notable exceptions, away from the interior. Falciparum malaria and yellow fever, however, the chief ramparts in this barrier, did not remain confined to …

  • Proslavery Ideology

    Jeffrey Robert Young, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article shows how the same fundamental questions raised by proslavery thought have consistently confronted not only modern scholars but also the very historical actors who battled over slavery's fate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It discusses early proslavery thought in the Americas, proslavery thought in the age of revolution, the role of proslavery thought in sectional conflict and postbellum sectional reconciliation, and the…

  • Cuba

    Matt D Childs, Manuel Barcia et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in Cuba. In the sixteenth-century, Africans crossed the Atlantic and accompanied Diego Velésquez and other Spanish conquistadors in the first expeditions sent to subjugate Cuba. Africans served in post-conquest Cuba as enslaved assistants to powerful military and political officials or as domestic servants. During the nineteenth-century heyday of plantation slavery, Cub…

  • Comparative Slavery

    Enrico Dal Lago, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article first briefly reviews the historiography of comparative slavery, so as to identify the main trends and changes it went through. It then provides a summary of the state of the art of comparative studies in the three main historical periods in which slavery flourished in the Americas: the colonial period (sixteenth to late eighteenth centuries), the revolutionary period (roughly 1770–1820), and the nineteenth century. At the heart of t…

  • Slave Resistance

    Douglas R Egerton, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article discusses the historiography of slave resistance. Despite persistent attempts by historians to force a uniformity of vision and goals on rebel leaders, insurgent slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries differed from one another fully as much as white revolutionaries in the same era. If slave rebellions in North America correspond to any one model, it is that they proliferated during times when the white majority was divided…

  • Post‐Emancipation Adjustments

    Stanley L Engerman, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    The demise of slavery in the Western hemisphere unfolded in a remarkably short period of time, in roughly 100 years. Yet, the various emancipations hardly realized the rosy scenario predicted by their most ardent advocates. The history of post-emancipation societies poses multiple questions — some unanswered, others the matter of continuing debate — about the meaning of freedom and the costs borne by different groups of historical actors. This ar…

  • Spanish South American Mainland

    Peter Blanchard, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in the Spanish South American Mainland. The history of African slaves on the South American mainland began with the Spanish conquistadors in the early sixteenth century. Already present in the West Indies and Mexico following the Spanish conquest and settlement of those areas, slaves now became involved in the expansion of Spanish rule southward. Small numbers accompani…

  • Spanish Hispaniola and Puerto Rico

    Francisco A Scarano, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in Spanish Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. Santo Domingo, the Spanish colony that became the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, its island neighbour to the east, rank as two of the Western hemisphere's most racially mixed societies. Historical factors related in one way or another to slavery account for the high degree of racial admixture. Both countries experienced ensla…

  • Class and Slavery

    Jonathan Daniel Wells, Mark M Smith et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of Slavery in the…2012

    This article reviews scholarship on class and slavery. The evolution of the historiography on class and slavery is complex, and historians have only recently begun to revisit some of their basic assumptions about class formation, class ideology, and the social structure of the Old South more broadly. New studies raise questions about the ways in which human bondage and class intertwined in slave societies, particularly the American South, and hav…