Image credit: Original artwork by Luz Sandoval in collaboration with Sara E. Johnson. Collaged and edited by Constance Mello.
Sara E. Johnson
Sara E. Johnson is a scholar, writer, mentor, and professor. Her latest book is Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World (University of North Carolina Press).
She currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego.
Talk at La Maison Française, New York University. Artwork by Fabiola Jean-Louis.
Isaac Mendes Belisario, "French Set Girls. Sketches of character, in illustration of the habits, occupation, and costume of the Negro population, in the island of Jamaica: drawn after nature, and in lithography." Kingston, Jamaica, 1838.
"La Isabelica." Saint Domingue coffee plantation ruins in la Gran Piedra, Santiago de Cuba. 1997. Personal photo.
Sara E. Johnson in conversation with Marlene L. Daut, author of "Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution," during the reception for the co-winners of the 2024 Fredrick Douglass Book Prize award. Photo credit: Reuben Kleiner
Service historique de La Défense archives, Château de Vincennes. Paris, France.
Photo credit: Council Lecture, Omohundro Institute 2024 Annual Report
"Tabatié mué tombé." Earlu nineteenth-century danza transcribed in Emilio Bacardí y Moreau, "Crónicas de Santiago de Cuba," Tomo II (1909; Madrid: Gráficas Breogán, 1972).
Sara E. Johnson receives the Douglass prize, from Dr. David W. Blight, Professor of American History at Yale University. Photo credit: Reuben Kleiner
