Matthew J. Clavin

Matthew J. Clavin is a professor of history at the University of Houston and the author of Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War, The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community, Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers, and Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution.