Recent Scholarship
Slavery
Baum, Dale, “Burdens of Landholding in a Freed Slave Settlement: The Case of Brazos County’s ‘Hall’s Town,’” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 113 (Oct. 2009), 185–206.
Giovannetti, Jorge L., “Subverting the Master’s Narrative: Public Histories of Slavery in Plantation America,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 76 (Sept. 2009), 105–26.
Huston, James L., “Theory’s Failure: Malthusian Population Theory and the Projected Demise of Slavery,” Civil War History, 55 (Sept. 2009), 354–81.
Jordan, Jim, “Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar and the Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Fall 2009), 247–90.
Kenny, Gale, “Reconstructing a Different South: The American Missionary Association and Jamaica, 1834–65,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 30 (Sept. 2009), 445–66.
Mayo-Bobee, Dinah, “Servile Discontents: Slavery and Resistance in Colonial New Hampshire, 1645–1785,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 30 (Sept. 2009), 339–60.
Paterson, David E., “Slavery, Slaves, and Cash in a Georgia Village, 1825–1865,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Nov. 2009), 879–930.
Redd, Emmett, and Nicole Etcheson, “‘Sound on the Goose’: A Search for the Answer to an Age Old ‘Question,’” Kansas History, 32 (Autumn 2009), 204–17. Heavily illustrated.
Robertson, Stacey, “‘The Strength that Union Gives’: Western Women and Pragmatic Antislavery Politics,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (Sept. 2009), 299–315.
Twomey, Janet, “The Role of Massachusetts Merchants in the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave-Based Economies of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” New England Journal of History, 66 (Fall 2009), 5–25.
Yannielli, Joseph, “Cinqué the Slave Trader: Some New Evidence on an Old Controversy,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2009), http://www.common-place.org.
Arnold, Brie Anna Swenson, “‘Competition for the Virgin Soil of Kansas’: Gendered and Sexualized Discourse about the Kansas Crisis in Northern Popular Print and Political Culture, 1854–1860” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3343544.
Barnes, Brian L., “Antislavery Schism: Abolitionists, Colonizationists, and the Debate over Radical Reform, 1830–1860” (University of Washington, 2008).
Gurza-Lavalle, Gerardo, “Slavery Reform in Virginia, 1816–1865” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3331032.
Harrison, Alisa Y., “Reconstructing Somerset Place: Slavery, Memory, and Historical Consciousness” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3331205.
Oast, Jennifer Bridges, “Forgotten Masters: Institutional Slavery in Virginia, 1680–1860” (College of William and Mary, 2008). Order No. DA3340951.
Roberts, Justin, “Sunup to Sundown: Plantation Management Strategies and Slave Work Routines in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia, 1776–1810” (Johns Hopkins University, 2009). Order No. DA3339963.
Warren, Wendy Anne, “Enslaved Africans in New England, 1638–1700” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3342700.
Ethridge, Robbie, and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, eds., Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. x, 526 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1759-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Shuler, Jack, Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xiv, 217 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-60473-273-3.)
Sitiki, The Odyssey of an African Slave, ed. Patricia C. Griffin. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xii, 211 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3391-4.)
Wheeler, Peter, Chains and Freedom: Or, the Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man yet Living, a Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. x, 149 pp. Paper, $21.50, isbn 978-0-8713-5543-2.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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