John D. Garrigus on Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution

John D. Garrigus talks about his book, "A Secret among the Blacks," which introduces two dozen Black men and women whose decades of resistance preceded and shaped the 1791 Haitian revolt. John D. Garrigus is a former Andrew Carnegie Fellow and Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Rayelle Davis: On Trauma in Appalachia

Rayelle Davis discusses her book, Money in the Mountains: The Culture Trauma of Appalachia. By drawing upon her work as a trauma therapist in the region, Davis comes to argue that Appalachian trauma is colonial trauma. Tracing the predatory systems of power and the extraction of wealth and resources by a distant elite, Davis sees the challenges around identity, sovereignty, and the actual cost of inequality in America come down to colonial models of exploitation. Rayelle Davis is a trauma…