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According to Wikipedia, Franklin W. Knight is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. He is an emeritus professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History from 1993 to 2014 and director of the Centre for Africana Studies. He was awarded a Gold Musgrave Medal for literature in 2013.

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Slave society in Cuba during the nineteenth century (1970) (179)
Slave and citizen (1947) (118)
The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (1978) (74)
Slavery, war, and revolution : the British occupation of Saint Domingue, 1793-1798 (1983) (71)
Atlantic Port Cities: Economy, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 (1991) (60)
The Old Village and the Great House: An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica@@@Ideology and Class Conflict in Jamaica: The Politics of Rebellion (1992) (47)
The Haitian Revolution (2000) (36)
The Problem of Slavery as History: A Global Approach (2013) (30)
Origins of Wealth and the Sugar Revolution in Cuba, 1750-1850 (1977) (30)
The Dynamics of Change in a Slave Society: A Sociopolitical History of the Free Coloreds of Jamaica, 1800-1865 (1976) (26)
The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel (2006) (23)
Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World (2010) (22)
The slave societies of the Caribbean (1997) (20)
Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context (2005) (17)
The Haitian Revolution and the Notion of Human Rights (2005) (16)
No Peace beyond the Line: The English in the Caribbean, 1624-1690. Carl Bridenbaugh , Roberta BridenbaughSugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. Richard S. Dunn (1973) (12)
Africa and the West: The Legacies of Empire (1987) (11)
General History of the Caribbean (2003) (10)
Urban nationalism : a study of political development in Trinidad (1988) (8)
The African dimension in Latin American societies (1976) (7)
Race and ethnic relations in Latin America and the Caribbean : an historical dictionary and bibliography (1981) (7)
Race, Ethnicity, and Class: Forging the Plural Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (1996) (6)
General History of the Caribbean. Vol III. The Slave Societies of the Caribbean (1998) (6)
Pluralism, creolization and culture (2003) (6)
Slavery and Race Relations in the Americas. An Inquiry into their Nature and Nexus . Edited By H. Hoetink. (New York: Harper and Row, 1973. Pp. 232. Index. Bibliography. $13.50 Cloth, $3.95 Paper.) (1975) (5)
Drugged Out. Globalization and Jamaica's Resilience to Drug Trafficking (2012) (5)
Slavery and the rise of the Atlantic system: Slavery and lagging capitalism in the Spanish and Portuguese American empires, 1492–1713 (1991) (4)
The Caribbean in the 1930s (2003) (4)
The New Caribbean and the United States (1994) (4)
Maroon communities in the circum-Caribbean (2003) (3)
The Caribbean Sugar Industry and Slavery (1983) (3)
Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean. Barbados, 1937–1966 (2013) (3)
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1997) (3)
The Struggle of the British Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1900-2013 (2014) (2)
Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin: Central America and the Caribbean in the New World Order . By Jean Grugel. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. 270. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $39.95.) (1997) (2)
The disintegration of the Caribbean slave systems, 1772–1886 (2003) (2)
La esclavitud en Cuba (1989) (2)
On the poetry of history (2004) (2)
THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF CUBAN SLAVE SOCIETY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1977) (2)
Migration and Culture: A Case Study of Cuba, 1750–1900 (2008) (2)
Eugene Genovese on American Slave Revolts@@@From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World. (1980) (2)
The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation. By Eugene D. Genovese (New York: Pantheon Books, 1969 xii + 274 pp. $5.95) (1970) (1)
United States Cultural Influences on the English-Speaking Caribbean during the Twentieth Century (1983) (1)
George Reid Andrews, "Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988". Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Introduction, Two Comments, and a Rejoinder by the Author (1992) (1)
The Caribbean in the Age of Enlightenment, 1788–1848 (2008) (1)
Toussaint, the Revolution and Haiti@@@The Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804. (1974) (1)
Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948 by Jorge L. Giovannetti-Torres (2020) (0)
Slave No More. Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas by Aline Helg (review) (2020) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1990) (0)
Race, ethnicity and class in Caribbean history (2003) (0)
Slavery and Social Death. A Comparative Study. By Orlando Patterson. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. xiii, 511. Appendices. Notes. Index. $40.00.) (1984) (0)
Reviews of Books (2015) (0)
Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico. By Jay Kinsbruner ( Durham , Duke University Press , 1996 ) 176 pp. $44.95 cloth $15.95 paper (1998) (0)
In Memoriam: Colin A. Palmer (1944–2019) (2019) (0)
Slavery in the Americas: A Comparative Study of Cuba and Virginia. By Herbert S. Klein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967. Pp. xi, 270. $6.95 (1968) (0)
Stephan Palmié and Francisco Scarano (eds.), The Caribbean: A History of the Region and its Peoples (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. ix+660, $35.00; £22.50, pb. (2013) (0)
Book Review: Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (2009) (0)
Toward a New U.S. Presence in the Caribbean (2019) (0)
Latin America (1990) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1984) (0)
The President's Corner (2012) (0)
The history of Cuddington Parish (1945) (0)
Cuba, 1753–1815: Crown, Military, and Society. By Allan J. Kuethe. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. xv + 213 pp. $23.95.) (1987) (0)
Changing the Imperial Guard in the Caribbean (2010) (0)
Latin America and the Caribbean in the History of the World: Going Global Is Nothing New (2002) (0)
Settlement Patterns in Early Modern Colonization, 16th-18th Centuries, edited by Joyce Lorimer (2001) (0)
Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650–1838. By Barbara Bush (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1990. xiii plus 190 pp.) (1992) (0)
Spanish American Creole Society in Cuba (1750-1840) and the Rise of American Nationalism (1988) (0)
Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry by Philip A. Howard (review) (2016) (0)
The Great Father and the Danger: Religious Cults, Material Forces, and Collective Fantasies in the World of the Surinamese Maroons (1990) (0)
Latin America (1985) (0)
The Impact of the Congress of Vienna on Caribbean Politics and Society (2015) (0)
The World Sugar Economy in War and Depression, 1914-1940 . Edited by Bill Albert and Adrian Graves. (New York: Routeledge, Chapman a Hall, Inc., 1988. Pp. 241. Tables. Graphs. References. $55.00.) (1991) (0)
Reseña de "The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World" de David P. Geggus (ed.) (2005) (0)
Robert Brent Toplin. The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil. (Studies in American Negro Life.) New York: Atheneum. 1972. Pp. xvii, 299. $10.00 (1973) (0)
Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States. By David Luis-Brown. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 340 pp. Cloth, $89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4365-3. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4366-0.) (2009) (0)
War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895–1898 (review) (2007) (0)
Negro Slavery in Latin America. By Rolando Mellafe. Translated by J. W. S. Judge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. Pp. 172. $11.50 (1976) (0)
Teresita Martínez Vergne (1955–2013) (2014) (0)
Black Society in Spanish Florida (review) (2001) (0)
The Crisis in the Contemporary Caribbean (2008) (0)
Self-Emancipation in the Americas (2020) (0)
Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929 (review) (1999) (0)
Reviews of Books (2003) (0)
Eric Williams' Inward Hunger: the Caribbean as a microcosm of world history. (1999) (0)
Crises in the Caribbean Basin (1988) (0)
FIELD OF THE INVENTION (2017) (0)
The President's Corner (2012) (0)
Marriage, Class and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba. By Verena Martínez-Alier. ([Cambridge Latin American Studies No. 17.] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974, Pp. x, 202. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $13.95, cloth; $5.95, paper.) (1976) (0)
A Caribbean Quest for the Muse of History (2009) (0)
Documentary evidence of the Haitian revolution (2010) (0)
Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad 1870-1900. By Bridget Brereton (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. x, 251. Glossary. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.50.) (1981) (0)
Sugar without Slaves. The Political Economy of British Guiana, 1838-1904. By Alan H. Adamson (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972. 315 pages. Index. $12.50) (1974) (0)
Slavery in the Americas (2011) (0)
War and Genocide in Cuba, 18951898. By John Lawrence Tone (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006) 353 pp. $35.00 (2008) (0)
The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados. JEROME S. HANDLER (1975) (0)
Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden, editors. Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1987. Pp. xi, 290. $35.00 (1989) (0)
Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World (1973) (0)
Cuban and Caribbean experiences in those turbulent early decades of the twentieth century (2016) (0)
Leonard Wood and Cuban Independence 1898-1902. By James H. Hitchman. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973. Pp. 238. Index. Bibliography. Appendices. 34 guilders.) (1974) (0)
Anthony Payne and Paul Sutton, Charting Caribbean Development (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001), pp. xi+284, $55.00, hb. (2003) (0)
Philip A. Howard. Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. xii + 303 pp. ISBN 978-0-8071-5952-1, $47.50 (cloth). (2016) (0)

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