Jeff Forret, “‘Deaf & Dumb, Blind, Insane, or Idiotic’: The Census, Slaves, and Disability in the Late Antebellum South,” Journal of Southern History 82, no. 3 (July 29, 2016): 503–48. "In a diary she kept during a stay on her husband’s coastal Georgia slaveholdings in the winter of 1838–1839, British actress Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble … Continue reading ARTICLE: Forret on Slavery, Disability and the Census
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Douglass Prize Finalists Announced! Finch, Forret, & Hopper
Congratulations Aisha K. Finch, Jeff Forret, and Matthew S. Hopper!! New Haven, Conn. (August 24, 2016) — Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the 18th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African … Continue reading Douglass Prize Finalists Announced! Finch, Forret, & Hopper
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