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About Brigid Wallace
Brigid Wallace is a graduate student at Lehigh University. A historian of the French Atlantic world, my research explores how race, migration, revolution, and science shaped the lives of ordinary people during the Age of Revolutions. Her work traces the movement of people, plants, and ideas across the Atlantic, focusing on mixed-race families who fled Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and rebuilt their lives in Charleston, South Carolina. Her master's thesis, "Preservation of a Family: The Noisettes' Journey from Saint-Domingue to Charleston, 1794–1860," examines how one family navigated the political upheavals of the French, Haitian, and American Revolutions while preserving kinship networks across shifting racial and national boundaries. Through the story of the Noisette family, I investigate how migration transformed identities and how refugees carried not only memories and traditions but also scientific knowledge. Her work demonstrates that the history of revolution is not only a story of politics and war but also one of families, mobility, and the exchange of knowledge that reshaped the modern Atlantic world.
"You may encounter many obstacles, but you must not be defeated!" Maya Angelou
NBN Episodes hosted by Brigid:
July 2, 2026
The First Emancipation
The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France (Princeton UP, 2026) is a dramatic account of how slavery and race …
May 28, 2026
The Door of No Return
In The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black (Temple University Press, 2026), Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy …
March 13, 2026
Black Power, Inc.
Black Power, Inc.: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics, (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026), traces the rise of Black empowe…
October 15, 2023
A Secret Among the Blacks
A bold rethinking of the Haitian Revolution reveals the roots of the only successful slave uprising in the modern world.Unearthing the progenitors of …
October 20, 2022
The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution
In this age of globalization, the eighteenth-century priest and abolitionist Henri Grégoire have often been called a man ahead of his time. An icon of…
September 12, 2022
The Writing Public
Inspired by the reading and writing habits of citizens leading up to the French Revolution, The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in …