Julia Gaffield
Biographic Data
| ID | 705051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Gaffield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaffield |
| SIGNATURE | GAFFIELD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I Have Avenged America
The Racialization of International Law after the Haitian Revolution
The Haitian state shaped international definitions of sovereignty and national legitimacy after the Declaration of Independence in 1804. Haiti's nineteenth century was not a period of isolation and decline; its first six decades were globally connected because the country's leaders challenged their postcolonial inequality with diplomacy and state formation. This strategy aimed to establish Haiti's membership in the "family of nations," a central …
From freedom’s sun some glimmering rays are shed that cheer the gloomy realms’
Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian Revolution’s two most important leaders, have long been considered each others’ foils. Whereas Dessalines has been subjected to vicious, racist caricature, Toussaint has tended to elicit more sympathetic portrayals. This paper examines a rare, recently rediscovered exception to this dichotomy. Stephen Farley and Avery Williams, two Dartmouth College seniors, co-wrote and performed a sh…
Caribbean Crossing
The Haitian Revolution
Three Ancient Colonies
“This book is mostly a meditation, a personal look back,” Sidney Mintz confesses, “not weighty scholarship” (p. 24). Despite the modest disclaimer, the text sheds light on the characteristics that set the Caribbean apart in world history while also highlighting the diversity within the region. Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico each followed distinctive historical trajectories, Mintz tells us, which intertwined and overlapped economically, socially,…
“Liberté, Indépendance”
“From the moment that I realized that my compatriots had taken a vow to prefer death to servitude,” general in chief of the Armée indigène, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, wrote in his military journal at the end of the Haitian Revolution, “I promised to pursue with determination the French, our executioners.” 1 While the Haitian revolution had begun in 1791 with a coordinated slave uprising in the northern plain of Saint-Domingue, the battle only becam…
Constitutional Documents of Haiti 1790-1860
In the wake of the American and French revolutions at the end of the 18th century, the first modern constitutional documents adopted in the Americas outside of the US were penned in Haiti. This newly revised edition takes into account for the first time all constitutional documents from 1790 onward, thus offering a unique window on the early constitutional history of the first independent Latin American country.
Haiti and Jamaica in the Remaking of the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Complexities of Imagining Haiti
Journal Article Complexities of Imagining Haiti: A Study of National Constitutions, 1801–1807 Get access Julia Gaffield Julia Gaffield Department of History, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2007, Pages 81–103, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0132 Published: 01 October 2007
Complexities of Imagining Haiti
Journal Article Complexities of Imagining Haiti: A Study of National Constitutions, 1801–1807 Get access Julia Gaffield Julia Gaffield Department of History, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2007, Pages 81–103, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0132 Published: 01 October 2007
Haiti and Jamaica in the Remaking of the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Constitutional Documents of Haiti 1790-1860
In the wake of the American and French revolutions at the end of the 18th century, the first modern constitutional documents adopted in the Americas outside of the US were penned in Haiti. This newly revised edition takes into account for the first time all constitutional documents from 1790 onward, thus offering a unique window on the early constitutional history of the first independent Latin American country.
Complexities of Imagining Haiti
Journal Article Complexities of Imagining Haiti: A Study of National Constitutions, 1801–1807 Get access Julia Gaffield Julia Gaffield Department of History, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2007, Pages 81–103, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2007.0132 Published: 01 October 2007
Haiti and Jamaica in the Remaking of the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
“Liberté, Indépendance”
“From the moment that I realized that my compatriots had taken a vow to prefer death to servitude,” general in chief of the Armée indigène, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, wrote in his military journal at the end of the Haitian Revolution, “I promised to pursue with determination the French, our executioners.” 1 While the Haitian revolution had begun in 1791 with a coordinated slave uprising in the northern plain of Saint-Domingue, the battle only becam…
Constitutional Documents of Haiti 1790-1860
In the wake of the American and French revolutions at the end of the 18th century, the first modern constitutional documents adopted in the Americas outside of the US were penned in Haiti. This newly revised edition takes into account for the first time all constitutional documents from 1790 onward, thus offering a unique window on the early constitutional history of the first independent Latin American country.
Three Ancient Colonies
“This book is mostly a meditation, a personal look back,” Sidney Mintz confesses, “not weighty scholarship” (p. 24). Despite the modest disclaimer, the text sheds light on the characteristics that set the Caribbean apart in world history while also highlighting the diversity within the region. Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico each followed distinctive historical trajectories, Mintz tells us, which intertwined and overlapped economically, socially,…
Caribbean Crossing
The Haitian Revolution
From freedom’s sun some glimmering rays are shed that cheer the gloomy realms’
Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian Revolution’s two most important leaders, have long been considered each others’ foils. Whereas Dessalines has been subjected to vicious, racist caricature, Toussaint has tended to elicit more sympathetic portrayals. This paper examines a rare, recently rediscovered exception to this dichotomy. Stephen Farley and Avery Williams, two Dartmouth College seniors, co-wrote and performed a sh…
The Racialization of International Law after the Haitian Revolution
The Haitian state shaped international definitions of sovereignty and national legitimacy after the Declaration of Independence in 1804. Haiti's nineteenth century was not a period of isolation and decline; its first six decades were globally connected because the country's leaders challenged their postcolonial inequality with diplomacy and state formation. This strategy aimed to establish Haiti's membership in the "family of nations," a central …
I Have Avenged America
Political science (8 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 works) · History (7 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (6 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)