Traditionally known as le Refuge, the Huguenot diaspora led to the exodus of nearly two hundred thousand Protestants out of France in 1685 at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Memory and Identity offers a comparative perspective on this event and its repercussions by an international group of historians. This collection is the first look at the Huguenot diaspora in a broad Atlantic context rather than as a narrowly European or colonial American phenomenon and sheds new light on the Protestant experience both in and outside of France.

Randy J. Sparks is a professor of history at Tulane University. His books include Religion in Mississippi and The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey.