She is the author of the book Black Society in Spanish Florida (Urbana, 1999), editor of Colonial Plantations and Economy of Florida (Gainesville, 2000) and Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas (London, 1996) and co-editor of Slaves, Subjects and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque, 2006) and The African American Heritage of Florida (Gainesville, 1995) which also won several awards. She has published essays on the African history of the Hispanic Southeast and of the circum-Caribbean in The American Historical Review, Slavery and Abolition, The New West Indian Guide, The Americas, and Colonial Latin American Historical Review.