I Have Avenged America - Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haitis Fight for Freedom

A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule

About the author

Julia Gaffield is associate professor of history at William & Mary. She is the author of Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution. She lives in Williamsburg, VA.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Gaffield, Gaffield Julia
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.08.2025
• EAN: 9780300255478
• ISBN: 978-0-300-25547-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Biography: general, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Caribbean islands, General & world history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, General and world history, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black