We speak with Brandon R. Byrd about his book The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti. Byrd is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century Black intellectual and social history, with a special interest in Black internationalism. It has been featured in publications such as the Journal of African American History, the Journal of Haitian Studies, Palimpsest, and Slavery & Abolition. In addition to teaching and research, Byrd serves as co-editor of the Black Lives and Liberation series published by Vanderbilt University Press.
