via official website: The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project makes available some 2400 advertisements that appeared in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and 1840. A collaboration between The […]
The Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University is digitizing eighteenth and nineteenth-century anti-slavery petitions: “…Included in the thousands of petitions are first-person accounts of former slaves and free […]
Marc-Antoine Caillot, A Company Man: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies. Edited by Erin M. Greenwald. 1st ed. The Historic New Orleans Collection, […]
The latest issue of Slavery & Abolition includes the following articles: Scrambling for Slaves: Captive Sales in Colonial South Carolina Sean Kelley Pages: 1-21 The Penalty of a Tyrant’s Law: […]
Emily Clark. The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. via University of North […]
Margaret Washington. Sojourner Truth’s America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Vincent Carretta. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. via University of Georgia Press: “With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), […]
Geoffrey Sanborn. “‘People Will Pay to Hear the Drama’: Plagiarism in Clotel.” African American Review 45, no. 1 (2012): 65–82. Excerpt: It is no secret that William Wells Brown did […]
Kevin J. Hayes. “New Light on Peter and King, the Two Slaves Benjamin Franklin Brought to England.” Notes and Queries (March 27, 2013). Excerpt: “WHEN Benjamin Franklin went to London on […]
Barbara McCaskill. “The Profits and the Perils of Partnership in the ‘Thrilling’ Saga of William and Ellen Craft.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 38, no. 1 (March 1, […]
