The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and  Comparative History. Bloomsbury, 2023 (second edition), 304 p.

Museums and Atlantic Slavery. Routledge, 2021. 144 p.

Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past.  Bloomsbury, 2020. 272 p.

Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History.  Bloomsbury, 2017. 288 p.

Romantismo tropical: Um pintor francês nos trópicos. Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. 248 p.

Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. 264 p.

African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World. Cambria Press, 2015. 428 p.

Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage, and Slavery. New York: Routledge, 2014. 268 p.

Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space. Routledge, 2012. 296 p.

Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities and Images. Cambria Press, 2011. 476 p.

Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, co-edited with Mariana P. Candido and Paul E. Lovejoy. Africa World Press, 2011. 308 p.

Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic. Cambria Press, 2010. 502 p.

Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 290 p.

Romantisme tropical: l’aventure illustrée d’un peintre français au Brésil. Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008. 282 p.