Robert Louis (Robert) Paquette (born 1951) is an American historian and former Professor of American History at

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

, and co-founder of the

Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization is an educational institute in Clinton, New York founded in 2007. Judge David Aldrich Nelson was a charter director. One of its board members is Jane Fraser. History History pr ...

. He is particularly known for his work on the history of

slavery Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

Life and work

Paquette obtained his BA cum laude in 1973 from the

Bowling Green State University Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a public research university in Bowling Green, Ohio. The main academic and residential campus is south of Toledo, Ohio. The university has nationally recognized programs and research facilities in the ...

, and his PhD with honors in 1982 from the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private university, private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants Undergraduate education, undergraduate and graduate degrees, including Doctorate, do ...

. His adviser was the eminent historian of slavery and

antebellum Antebellum, Latin for "before war", may refer to: United States history * Antebellum South, the pre-American Civil War period in the Southern United States ** Antebellum Georgia ** Antebellum South Carolina ** Antebellum Virginia * Antebellum ...

Southern society,

Eugene Genovese Eugene Dominic Genovese (May 19, 1930 – September 26, 2012) was an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He was noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and ...

. In 1994 he was appointed Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at

. During his career, he has been an outspoken critic of liberal politics on Hamilton's campus. In 2002, Paquette protested when a student group invited Annie Sprinkle, an actress and former porn-star, to speak on campus.Glenn Coin, ''The Post-Standard'' (Syracuse, NY), September 25, 2002 Paquette later led an attempt to create an alumni-endowed center on campus dedicated to "the study of capitalism, natural law and the role of religion in politics," but the initiative was ultimately rejected by the faculty and administration."Rejected by NY college, conservative center sets up off campus"
, ''Higher Education News'', 18 September 2007 In response, Paquette co-founded the independent

, housed off-campus in the nearby village of Clinton. In response to the College's handling of the Institute issue and other matters, Paquette formally resigned his endowed professorship (though not his faculty position) in 2011. Paquette eventually exited from Hamilton College in 2018. In 2005 Paquette was awarded the Mary Young Award for distinguished achievement by the

Selected publications

* Paquette, Robert L., ''Sugar is made with blood: the conspiracy of La Escalera and the conflict between empires over slavery in Cuba.'' Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. * Paquette, Robert L., and Stanley L. Engerman, eds. ''The Lesser Antilles in the age of European expansion.'' University Press of Florida, 1996. * Engerman, Stanley L.,

Seymour Drescher Seymour Drescher (born 1934) is an American historian and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and slavery and his published work ''Econocide''. Career Seymour Drescher has been publishin ...

, and Robert L. Paquette, eds. ''Slavery.'' Oxford University Press, 2001. Articles, a selection: * Paquette, Robert L. "Social history update: slave resistance and social history." ''Journal of Social History'' (1991): 681–685. * Paquette, Robert L. "Revolutionary Saint Domingue in the making of territorial Louisiana." ''A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean'' (1997): 204–25.

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Professor Anthony Culyer
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