Law and Revolution

Commentaries on Legal Affairs and the Atlantic Revolutionary Tradition.

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La merveilleuse peinture qui orne la couverture de mon livre "L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution haïtienne": « La déclaration d’indépendance d’Haïti, par le Général Jean-Jacques Dessalines, 1 janvier 1804 » d’Ernst Prophète (1999). De la collection privée de Jack Rosenthal et Holly Russell. Photo reproduite avec l’aimable autorisation de Teq Minsky . Voici un lien à la nouvelle préface à l'édition française du livre: http://lawandrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Preface-M-Ghachem-Ancien-re%CC%81gime-Hai%CC%88ti.pdf 

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In loving memory of Said Ghachem, 1941-2021.

In loving memory of Said Ghachem, 1941-2021.

The obituary in the Houston Chronicle for my beloved father Said Ghachem. Rest in peace and love you always Dad.

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Supporting an amusement park for children in Haiti

Supporting an amusement park for children in Haiti

Dear friends,

The Centre Haïtien de Recherche et d’Actions pour le développement (ChrAD)is a Haitian nonprofit organization dedicated the promotion of research and local community development, run by the historian Jean Fritzner Etienne, one of Haiti’s leading scholars of the colonial and revolutionary periods and an authority on the Catholic Church in Saint-Domingue/Haiti. CHrAD is raising…

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MIT Community Vigil on racial justice

MIT Community Vigil on racial justice

My thoughts on racial justice and the state of our country, delivered as part of an MIT Community Vigil on June 2, 2021, can be found at 40:41 of the webcast, and also herein text form. If you have come this far, please also hear the other voices who spoke up at this event: in order, Rafael Reif, Danielle Geathers, Madeleine Sutherland, DiOnetta Jones Crayton, John Dozier, Corban Swain, Malick…

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Impeachment: The Eighteenth Century and Now

Impeachment: The Eighteenth Century and Now

Back to the theme of this blog: some thoughts for the admirable Age of Revolutions website about the impeachment of Warren Hastings (as governor-general of India) in Britain from 1788-1795 and the impeachment of President Trump.

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Pan-Mass Challenge

2019 @panmass Challenge to raise money for cancer treatment and research at the Dana Farber Institute: still time to give!

Dear friends,

I will be logging some 190 miles from Sturbridge to Provincetown on my bike August 3-4, 2019 to raise money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute as part of the 2019 Pan-Mass Challenge.  Last year I rode in memory of my friend Lara Moore, a friend from graduate school who passed away from cancer in 2003.  This year I am riding to celebrate two wonderful friends who have had a big…

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UCLA conference on "Exodus and Exile: Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers 1750–1850"

UCLA conference on “Exodus and Exile: Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers 1750–1850”

Looking forward to speaking about the maroons of Saint-Domingue/Haiti at this upcoming UCLA conference on migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Fredrik Thomasson events on Haiti/Sweden/Colonial Archives Feb. 4 and 8, 2019 at Harvard/Radcliffe

Please join us for a lecture by Radcliffe Visiting Scholar Fredrik Thomasson entitled Sweden and Haiti, 1791-1825. Register here to attend.

Sweden and Haiti 1791–1825 Monday, February 4 | 4 PM Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Knafel Center, Room 104, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge MA

Haitian historiography is evolving rapidly and the recent focus on the revolution has…

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"The Jesuits, the Souls of Slaves, and the Struggle for Haiti, 1720-1725": Nov. 7 at Harvard

Looking forward to speaking on November 7 about “The Jesuits, the Souls of Slaves, and the Struggle for Haiti, 1720-1725” at Harvard’s Mahindra 18th c. Studies Seminar.  Details here.

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Africa in Global History: A Colloquium on the Work of Joseph C. Miller

Looking forward to participating in this upcoming (Oct. 26) Harvard colloquium on the work of the great Africanist Joseph Miller of UVA, spearheaded by my wonderful new MIT colleague Kenda Mutongi.  You can find the final program at this link and also just below:

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Africa in Global History: A Colloquium on the Work of Joseph C. Miller

Africa in Global History: A Colloquium on the Work of Joseph C. Miller

Looking forward to participating in this upcoming (Oct. 26) Harvard colloquium on the work of the great Africanist Joseph Miller of UVA, spearheaded by my wonderful new MIT colleague Kenda Mutongi.  You can find the final program at this link and also just below:

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Race in Boston (and Newton)

Sunscreen, Fornite skins, and race in Boston (and Newton): a plug for the Globe's Spotlight series on "Boston. Racism. Image. Reality."

Two real-world anecdotes from my life today:

1. I am playing tennis at the local clay courts with a friend, whose family comes from subcontinent.  Four Caucasian males on the court next to us are finishing a doubles match.  One of said males, with whom I had been chatting earlier (but whom I had met only that morning), tells me as he is preparing to leave the court that “at least you guys don’t…

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Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Atlantic

"Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Atlantic": May 38-30 in Québec

Looking forward to this conference May 28-30 in Québec on “Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Atlantic,” at which I will present a paper entitled “Controlling Haitian History: Moreau de Saint-Méry and the Revolt against the Indies Company.”

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MIT and the Task of History

MIT and the Task of History: a conversation with my colleagues about "the power of historical knowledge to make a better world"

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege to participate in one of the most interesting and important dialogues I have been involved in as a historian.  The occasion was the second of a series of forums on the “MIT and Slavery” project, an investigation of MIT’s relationship to slavery that MIT’s President Rafael Reif commissioned at the end of last academic year.  The project has been…

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"'Our Crown and Glory': The Jesuits, the Souls of Slaves, and the Struggle for Saint-Domingue," at Yale's Early Modern Empires Workshop Feb. 5 Looking forward to visiting Yale's Early Modern Empires Workshop Feb. 5 for discussion of "'Our Crown and Glory': The Jesuits, the Souls of Slaves, and the Struggle for Haiti" -- the penultimate chapter of my book on the revolt against the Indies Company in Haiti, 1720-1725.

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MIT "Black Lives Matter" Conversation

MIT "Black Lives Matter" Conversation April 22

Boston area friends,

The Black Students’ Union at MIT is hosting a conversation on April 22, from 2-4pm, entitled “What does Black Lives Matter have to do with YOU?” at the Stratton Student Center, Mezzanine Lounge (W20-307).  Please attend if you can and share with interested folks.

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ASLH call for proposals extended to April 3

American Society for Legal History call for proposals extended to April 3

The next meeting of the American Society for Legal History will be held in Las Vegas from Oct. 26-29, 2017.  The deadline for panel and paper proposals has been extended to April 3.  Please consider submitting a proposal, especially if you have not yet participated in an ASLH meeting.  The CFP is here.  Some financial assistance is available for participants, especially graduate students, who…

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