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Sabine Cadeau

Sabine Cadeau
Contact Information
Address: 

Leacock, Rm 618
Department of History, 855 Sherbrooke West
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Phone: 
514-396-2150
Position: 
Associate Professor
Office: 
Leacock 618
Degree(s): 

Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 2015)
M.A. (University of Chicago, 2008)

Specialization by geographical area: 
Latin America
Biography: 

Sabine Cadeau is a historian of Modern Latin America and the Caribbean. Her research and teaching interests include the early modern Atlantic World as well as modern Latin American and Caribbean history. Her first book More Than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican borderlands was published by the University of Cambridge Press Afro-Latin America series. The book traces a successively worsening campaign of explicitly racialized anti-Haitian repression that began in 1919 under the American occupiers, accelerated in 1930, with the rise of Trujillo, and culminated in 1937 with the slaughter of an estimated twenty thousand civilians. More than a Massacre reframes the 1937 Haitian Massacre as a genocide and demonstrates the importance of this event for understanding statelessness and citizenship in the twentieth century. In 2023 More than a Massacre was awarded the Latin American Studies Association鈥檚 Bryce Wood Book Award and the from the Institute for the Study of Genocide.

Her second manuscript, Bonds and Bondage: Financial Capitalism and the Legacies of Atlantic Slavery at the University of Cambridge is forthcoming with the University of Cambridge Press. This manuscript emerged from the commissioned University of Cambridge Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry that began in 2019. It is a study of the University of Cambridge鈥檚 multiple relationships with slave trading companies such as the East India Company, The Royal African Company, and especially the South Sea Company. This book illustrates the ways in which the University of Cambridge accumulated wealth from Atlantic Slavery through colonial financial instruments. Through this study she demonstrates that the University of Cambridge benefitted economically from enslavement at multiple levels and was transformed by the colonial capitalism of the early modern era in multiple highly visible ways.

Sabine is also currently preparing another monograph on the 1937 Haitian Massacre titled Victims in Their Own Words: Remembering the Forgotten 1937 Haitian Massacre. This book project builds on her oral history fieldwork on the 1937 Haitian Massacre and centers survivors鈥 detailed accounts and interpretation of the event.

Selected publications: 

More Than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands, Cambridge University Press, 2022. (Winner of the 2023 Latin American Studies Association Bryce Wood Book Prize and Winner of the 2023 Raphael Lemkin Book Award)

Bonds and Bondage: Financial Capitalism and the Legacies of Atlantic Slavery at the University of Cambridge, Manuscript in Progress

鈥淎dvisory Group on Legacies of Enslavement final report鈥 co-authored with Dr. Nicolas Bell-Romero and the Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry Advisory Board, chair: Martin Millet, Emeritus Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology.

鈥淔谤辞尘 tierra de nadie to terre br没l茅e 鈥 From Borderland to Border in Haiti and the Dominican Republic鈥 Barriers and Borders, Crossing Borders Workshop Papers, Columbia World Projects and the Centre for History and Economics, 2022

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