he unpacked issues of race, culture, nationality, and politics in the British Army of the nineteenth century through fictionalized portrayals of three British soldiers, each a real-life historical figure: a Black African, an Indian Hindu, and an Irish Catholic. Buckley also penned mystery-thriller novels featuring fictional McGill University history professor and ladies' man Relph Coggins. Kirkus Reviews reviewed and praised one of these novels. Buckley received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Sir William Osler Medical Library at McGill, and the University of Connecticut. Buckley was a resident of Coventry, Connecticut. He was a frequent guest speaker at Windham High School. He died on July 25, 2020. Publications Scholarly books Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795-1815 (Yale University Press, 1979) Editor, The Haitian Journal of Lieutenant Howard, York Hussars, 1796-1798 (University of Tennessee Press, 1985) Editor, The Napoleonic War Journal of Captain Thomas Henry Browne, 1807-1816 (Bodley Head for the British Army Records Society, 1987) The British Army in the West Indies: Society and the Military in the Revolutionary Age (University Press of Florida, 1998) Co-editor with Tamara Roberts, Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho (University of Illinois Press, 2013) Novels Congo Jack (Pinto Press, 1997) I, Hanuman (Writers Workshop, Kolkata, India, 2003) Fort Gorges, Maine: A Relph Coggins Mystery (University Press of the South, 2008) Gandhi Forever: A Relph Coggins Mystery (University Press of the South, 2012) Sepoy O’Connor (Writers Workshop, Kolkata, India, 2016) Articles and book chapters "Slave or Freedman: The Question of the Legal Status of the British West India Soldier, 1795–1807," Caribbean Studies, 17, nos. 3-4 (1977–1978), 83–113 “The Destruction of the British Army in the West Indies, 1793-1815: A Medical History," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 56, no. 226 (1978), 79–94 "'Black Man' — The Mutiny of the 8th (British) West India Regiment: A Microcosm of War and Slavery in the Caribbean," Jamaican Historical Review, 12 (1980), 52–74 “The Frontier in the Jamaican Caricatures of Abraham James,” Yale University Library Gazette, 58, nos. 3-4 (1984), 152–162 “The Admission of Slave Testimony at British Military Courts in the West Indies, 1801–1809,” in Gaspar and Geggus, eds., A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution in the Greater Caribbean (Indiana University Press, 1997), 226–250 External links