Robert L. Paquette

Degrees

• Ph.D., University of Rochester
• B.A., Bowling Green State University

Teaching and Research interests

• The Old South
• Colonial Cuba
• Slave Societies
• The Caribbean
• Conservative Political Thought
• Colonial Latin America

Publications

• Sugar Is Made with Blood: The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba (Wesleyan University Press, 1988). Awarded the Elsa Goveia Prize (1992) and nominated for Bancroft Prize (1989)
• Editor with Stanley Engerman, The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion (University Press of Florida, 1996)
• "The Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Abolition" in New West Indian Guide, 63 No. 3 & 4 (1989)
• "Slave Resistance and Social History," Journal of Social History, 24 (Spring 1991)
• "Revolution and the American Mind," Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture 15 (July 1991): 32-34
• "Kenneth Stampp" in Historians of the American South, eds. William F. Steirer, Jr. and Rameth Richard Owens (Greenwood Press, forthcoming)
• "Revolutionary Saint Domingue in the Making of Territorial Louisiana," in A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution in the Greater Caribbean, ed. D. Barry Gaspar and David Geggus (Indiana University Press, 1996) "Slavery" in Encyclopedia of Social History (N.Y.:Garland Press, 1994), pp. 675-680
• "La Escalera" and "Slave Revolts in Hispanic America" in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (New York: Scribner's, 1996)
• "Slave Religion and Slave Resistance," Slavery & Abolition, forthcoming
• "The Drivers Shall Lead Them: Images and Reality in Slave Resistance," in Race, Slavery, and Southern History (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming)
• With Joseph C. Dorsey, "The Escoto Collection and Cuban Slave Resistance," Slavery & Abolition, 15 (December 1994): 88-95
• "Slave Revolts" in Encyclopedia of Slavery, ed. Seymour Drescher and Stanley Engerman (Garland Press, 1997)

Recent Honors

• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1989
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1990-91
• Research Fellowship, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University Summer, 1991
• Williams Senior Research Fellowship, 1992
• NEH Conference Grant, 1992
• John Ripley Meyer Endowment, 1992

Current Projects

• Editor and contributor with Louis Ferleger, Race, Slavery and Southern History: Essays in Honor of Eugene D. Genovese (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming)
• Life and Death Along the Levee: The Story of the Great Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811