“Impunity for Acts of Peremptory Enslavement: James Madison, the U.S. Congress, and the Saint-Domingue Refugees”
William and Mary Quarterly
2022
“Transcription, Translation, and Collaboration”
The Americas
2022
“María Coleta y el Fraile Capuchino: Esclavitud, Salvación y Adjudicación de Estatus”
Historia y Justicia
2022
“Discerning a Dignitary Offense: The Concept of Equal Public Rights during Reconstruction”
- Intellectual Property and Antitrust
Law and History Review
2020
“María Coleta and the Capuchin Friar: Slavery, Salvation, and the Adjudication of Status”
William and Mary Quarterly
2019
“International Law and Contemporary Slavery: The Long View”
- International and Comparative Law
Michigan Journal of International Law
2017
“How Does the Law Put a Historical Analogy to Work? Defining the Imposition of ‘A Condition Analogous to That of a Slave’ in Modern Brazil”
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy
2017
“Social Facts, Legal Fictions, and the Attribution of Slave Status: The Puzzle of Prescription”
Law and History Review
2017
“O Trabalho Escravo Contemporâneo e os Usos da História (Contemporary Slave Labor and the Uses of History)”
Mundos do Trabalho
2013
“Slavery and the Law in Atlantic Perspective: Jurisdiction, Jurisprudence, and Justice”
Law and History Review
2011
“Paper Thin: Freedom and Re-enslavement in the Diaspora of the Haitian Revolution”
Law and History Review
2011
“Reinventar la esclavitud, garantizar la libertad: De Saint-Domingue a Santiago a Nueva Orleáns, 1803-1809”
- Legal History
Caminos
2009
“ ‘She...Refuses to Deliver Up Herself as the Slave of Your Petitioner’ Émigrés, Enslavement, and the 1808 Louisiana Digest of the Civil Laws”
- Legal History
Tulane European and Civil Law Forum
2009
“Servitude, Liberté et Citoyenneté dans le Monde Atlantique des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles: Rosalie de Nation Poulard..”
- Legal History
Revue de la Société Haïtienne d’Histoire et de Géographie
2008
“Public Rights, Social Equality, and the Conceptual Roots of the Plessy Challenge”
- Legal History
Michigan Law Review
2008
The Journal of American History
2007
“A Cuban Connection: Edwin F. Atkins, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and the Former Slaves of Soledad Plantation”
- Legal History
Massachusetts Historical Review
2007
“Les papiers de la liberté: Une mère africaine et ses enfants à l’époque de la révolution haïtienne”
- Legal History
Genèses
2007
“Public Rights and Private Commerce: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Creole Itinerary”
- Legal History
Current Anthropology
2007
“Grados de libertad: Democracia y antidemocracia en Cuby y Luisiana, 1898-1900”
- Legal History
Historia Social
2006
Law Quadrangle Notes
2004
“Le ‘droit d’avoir des droits’: Les revendications des ex-esclaves à Cuba (1872-1909)”
- Legal History
Annales, Histoire, Sciences sociales
2004
“The Provincial Archive as a Place of Memory: the Role of Former Slaves in the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98)”
- Legal History
History Workshop Journal
2004
“Derechos y honra públicos: Louis Martinet, Plessy contra FergusoN.Y. el acceso a la ley en Luisiana, 1888-1917”
- Legal History
Debate y Perspectivas
2004
“Se battre pour ses droits Écritures, litiges et discrimination raciale en Louisiane (1888-1899)”
- Legal History
Cahiers du Brésil contemporain
2003
“The Provincial Archive as a Place of Memory: Confronting Oral and Written Sources on the Role of Former Slaves in the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98)”
- Legal History
New West Indian Guide
2002
“Property in Writing, Property on the Ground: Pigs, Horses, Land, and Citizenship in the Aftermath of Slavery, Cuba, 1880-1909”
- Legal History
Comparative Studies in Society and History
2002
“The Writings of Moise (1898-1985): Birth, Life, and Death of a Narrative of the Great War”
- Legal History
Comparative Studies in Society and History
2002
“Reclaiming Gregoria’s Mule: The Meanings of Freedom in the Arimao and Caunao Valleys, Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1880-99”
- Legal History
Past and Present
2001
“Small-Scale Dynamics of Large-Scale Processes”
American Historical Review
2000
“’Stubborn and Disposed to Stand their Ground’: Black Militia, Sugar Workers and the Dynamics of Collective Action in the Louisiana Sugar Bowl, 1863-87”
- Legal History
Slavery & Abolition
1999
“Reclamando la mula de Gregoria Quesada: El significado de la libertad en los valles del Arimao y del Caunao, Cienfuegos, Cuba”
- Legal History
Illes i Imperis
1999
“Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Cuba: A View from the Sugar District of Cienfuegos, 1886-1909”
- Legal History
Hispanic American Historical Review
1998
“Defining the Boundaries of Freedom in the World of Cane: Cuba, Brazil, and Louisiana after Emancipation”
- Legal History
American Historical Review
1994
“Exploring the Meaning of Freedom: Postemancipation Societies in Comparative Perspective”
- Legal History
Hispanic American Historical Review
1988
Journal of Social History
1987
Estudos Econômicos
1987
“Explaining Abolition: Contradiction, Adaptation, and Challenge in Cuban Slave Society, 1860-1886”
- Legal History
Comparative Studies in Society and History
1984
Hispanic American Historical Review
1983
“The Battle Over the Child: Child Apprenticeship and the Freedmen’s Bureau in North Carolina”
- Legal History
Prologue
1978