Barbara Krauthamer. Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. via UNC Press: From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted … Continue reading BOOK: Krauthamer on Black Slaves and Indian Masters
Barbara Krauthamer
BOOK: Willis and Krauthamer on Envisioning Emancipation
Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer. Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery. First Edition. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. via Temple University Press: The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we really know about those who experienced slavery? In … Continue reading BOOK: Willis and Krauthamer on Envisioning Emancipation
FILM/ESSAYS: Chronicle “Conversation” on Spielberg’s Lincoln
The Conversation Blog at the Chronicle of Higher Ed hosted a roundtable on Spielberg's recent release Lincoln: As viewers flock to see Lincoln, and reviewers rave about Daniel Day-Lewis’s performance, historians are raising different issues: How accurate is the film’s portrayal of emancipation? What does it leave out? The Chronicle Review asked several scholars to … Continue reading FILM/ESSAYS: Chronicle “Conversation” on Spielberg’s Lincoln
Women of Color and Slavery in the United States
In the summer of 2007, the Journal of Women's History (19:2) published a roundtable on "The History of Women and Slavery: Considering the Impact of Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South on the Twentieth Anniversary of Its Publication." According to the "Introduction" by Jennifer L. Morgan, the roundtable was originally a … Continue reading Women of Color and Slavery in the United States
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