BOOK: Kaye on Slave Neighborhoods and Social Space
Anthony E. Kaye. Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South. Durham: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. via University of North Carolina Press: In this new interpretation of […]
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BOOK: Rodriguez on the Voices of the Enslaved in Cuba
Gloria Garcia Rodriguez. Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Documentary History. Translated by Nancy L. Westrate. Durham: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. via University of North […]
BOOK: Long on African-American Medical Care in Slavery and Freedom
Gretchen Long. Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation. Durham: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. via University of North Carolina Press: For […]
Congratulations to James H. Sweet, Winner of the 2012 Douglass Prize
From the Gilder Lerhman Center: James Sweet, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, has been selected as the winner of the 2012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his […]
BOOK: Curran on the Anatomy of Blackness
Andrew S. Curran, The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment. 1st ed. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. From Johns Hopkins University Press: […]
EDITED: Curry, Duke, and Smith on New Histories of the Black Diaspora
Dawne Y. Curry,, Eric D. Duke, and Marshanda A. Smith, eds. Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People. 1st ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. From University of […]
NEWS: Dylan Penningroth Wins 2012 Macarthur “Genius” Grant
Dylan Penningroth (Northwestern U.) has been awarded a 2012 Macarthur “Genius” grant for his work on kinship and property within slave communities in the United States and along the Gold […]
BOOK: Edelson on the Plantation Worlds of South Carolina
S. Max Edelson, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. From Harvard University Press: European settlers came to South Carolina in 1670 determined to possess […]
EDITED: Keaton, Sharpley-Whiting, and Stovall on Black France
Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall, eds. Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. From Duke University […]
BOOK: Cecelski on Former Slave Turned Union Spy Abraham H. Galloway
David S. Cecelski, The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War. Durham, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Abraham H. Galloway (1837-70) was a fiery young […]
