"An advertisement for a “Negro man and boy” and “a variety of other articles too tedious to mention” for disposal” inspired this author to examine the “truly impossible, futile position for most black parents” in eighteenth and nineteenth century Canada. This article first examines how slaves were sold in a similar manner on both sides … Continue reading ARTICLE: Zellars on Schooling
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EDITED: Slavery in the Machine, special issue of #sxarchipelagos
We are excited to announce the publication of sx:archipelagos, issue #3, Slavery in the Machine. Figure 3. *Vèvè of Papa Legba* We are excited to announce the publication of sx:archipelagos, issue #3, Slavery in the Machine. Guest edited by me and edited by Kaiama Glover and Alex Gil, this is a labor of love and … Continue reading EDITED: Slavery in the Machine, special issue of #sxarchipelagos
BLOGROLL/ARTICLES: Sinha’s Editor’s Note for June 2018 Journal of the Civil War Era on Abolitionism
Manisha Sinha writes: "When Judy Giesberg asked me to guest edit a special issue on abolition and solicit essays that would showcase new directions in abolition studies, I welcomed the opportunity. For a field that has been ploughed thoroughly—from global syntheses of the transition from slavery to freedom in the western world by some of … Continue reading BLOGROLL/ARTICLES: Sinha’s Editor’s Note for June 2018 Journal of the Civil War Era on Abolitionism
ARTICLE: Morgan on Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery
New work by Jennifer Morgan!
ARTICLE: Bell on Self-Emancipating Women, Civil War, and the Union Army in Louisiana and Georgia
Karen Cook Bell, “Self-Emancipating Women, Civil War, and the Union Army in Southern Louisiana and Lowcountry Georgia, 1861–1865,” The Journal of African American History 101, no. 1–2 (January 1, 2016): 1–22. "In 1861, ten enslaved African American women from the Contrell plantation in St. James Parish, Louisiana, ran away along with twenty enslaved men.1 … Continue reading ARTICLE: Bell on Self-Emancipating Women, Civil War, and the Union Army in Louisiana and Georgia
ARTICLE: Forret on Slavery, Disability and the Census
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
ARTICLE: Everill on “All the baubles that they needed”: “Industriousness” and Slavery in Saint-Louis and Gorée
Bronwen Everill, “‘All the Baubles That They Needed’: ‘Industriousness’ and Slavery in Saint-Louis and Gorée,” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 15, no. 4 (November 1, 2017): 714–39. Abstract: "Atlantic port cities were sites of commercial, consumer, and industrious revolutions in the eighteenth century. This essay argues that accounts of the Atlantic consumer and … Continue reading ARTICLE: Everill on “All the baubles that they needed”: “Industriousness” and Slavery in Saint-Louis and Gorée
ARTICLE: Saillant on Funeral Ceremonies in the Sea Islands
John Saillant, "'All Is for the Wind:" Notes on Funeral and Baptism Ceremonies on a Georgia Sea Island, c. 1868–1887," Journal of Southern Religion (19) (2017): jsreligion.org/vol19/saillant Saillant writes: "In 1843, black Baptists from Savannah, Georgia formed the First African Baptist church of Saint Catherines Island. Most or all of these congregants were slaves in … Continue reading ARTICLE: Saillant on Funeral Ceremonies in the Sea Islands
ARTICLE: King on Enslaved Women, Murder, and Southern Courts
Wilma King, "Mad" Enough to Kill: Enslaved Women, Murder, and Southern Courts, The Journal of African American History, Vol. 92, No. 1, Women, Slavery, and Historical Research (Winter, 2007), pp. 37-56 "More than two hundred Missourians petitioned Governor John C. Edwards to pardon Nelly, an enslaved teenager indicted for an 1846 murder in Warren County, … Continue reading ARTICLE: King on Enslaved Women, Murder, and Southern Courts
ARTICLES: Connolly and Fuentes Co-Edit Special Issue on Archives of Slavery
Scholars of slavery engage history, archives, Saidiya Hartman, and violence, in a recent History of the Present. From the introduction by Brian Connolly and Marisa Fuentes: "This special issue of the journal asks how the violence of the archives of slavery contributes to the production of a history of our present. What is at stake in … Continue reading ARTICLES: Connolly and Fuentes Co-Edit Special Issue on Archives of Slavery
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