Professor Clavin is the author of Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers (Harvard University Press, 2015) and Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: the Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). He has authored several articles and chapters on race, slavery, and memory in Civil War History, Early American Studies, Florida Historical Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, Slavery and Abolition, and several anthologies