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Slavery

 

Calomiris, Charles, and Jonathan Pritchett, “Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders’ Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market,” Journal of Economic History, 69 (Dec. 2009), 986–1011.

Dueholm, James A., “A Bill of Lading Delivers the Goods: The Constitutionality and Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 31 (Winter 2010), 22–38.

Howe, Scott W., “Slavery as Punishment: Original Public Meaning, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, and the Neglected Clause in the Thirteenth Amendment,” Arizona Law Review, 51 (Winter 2009), 983–1034.

Kent, Holly, “How Did Women’s Antislavery Fiction Contribute to Debates about Gender, Slavery, and Abolition, 1828–1856?,” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000, 13 (March 2009), http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2/wam2.object.details.aspx?dorpid=1002090131.

Norman, Matthew, “The Other Lincoln-Douglas Debate: The Race Issue in a Comparative Context,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 31 (Winter 2010), 1–21.

Young, Nicholas Maurice, et al., “Even Superheroes Need a Network: Harriet Tubman and the Rise of Insurgency in the New York State Underground Railroad,” Du Bois Review, 6 (Sept. 2009), 397–429.

 

Barker, Gordon S., “Anthony Burns and the North-South Dialogue on Slavery, Liberty, Race, and the American Revolution” (College of William and Mary, 2009). Order No. DA3353200.

Kennington, Kelly Marie, “River of Injustice: St. Louis’s Freedom Suits and the Changing Nature of Legal Slavery in Antebellum America” (Duke University, 2009). Order No. DA3352317.

Paugh, Katherine, “Rationalizing Reproduction: Race, Disease, and Fertility in the British Caribbean and the Atlantic World during the Age of Abolition, 1763–1833” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3346178.

 

Manegold, C. S., Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. xxiv, 317 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-691-13152-8.)

 

Kornblith, Gary J., Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776–1821. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. xiv, 165 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-7425-5095-7. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-7425-5096-4.)

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