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Crystal Eddins

Crystal Eddins is an assistant professor of Africana studies at UNC Charlotte, where her research focuses on African diaspora consciousness, historical sociology, social movements and collective action, marronnage, and the Haitian Revolution. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Haitian Studies and Gender and History. As a research fellow at the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, she completed Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). icon

Haiti’s New Political Worlds

By Crystal Eddins

Throughout its history, residents of Haiti, especially those of African descent, imagined and created their own possibilities for new social worlds.

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