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2021 Hs/SH Best Article Prize

Congratulations to Jennifer L. Palmer, recipient of the 2021 Histoire sociale / Social History Best Article prize, for her article “‘She persisted in her Revolt’: Between Slavery and Freedom in Saint-Domingue,” 53, no. 107 (2020).

The article will be freely available on Project MUSE for the duration of the year.

Find it here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/757131

The citation from the Prize committee:

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