Recent Scholarship
Slavery
Akehurst, Hazel, “Sectional Crises and the Fate of Africans Illegally Imported into the United States, 1806–1860,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (June 2008), 97–122.
Alexander, Roberta, “Dred Scott: The Decision That Sparked a Civil War,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 643–61.
Bernier, Celeste-Marie, and Judie Newman, “Public Art, Artefacts, and Atlantic Slavery: Introduction,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 135–50.
Bravo, Karen E., “Exploring the Analogy between Modern Trafficking in Humans and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,” Boston University International Law Journal (Boston), 25 (Fall 2007), 207–95.
Brophy, Alfred L., “Considering William and Mary’s History with Slavery: The Case of President Thomas Roderick Dew,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 16 (April 2008), 1091–1139.
Clavin, Matthew, “A Second Haitian Revolution: John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the Making of the American Civil War,” Civil War History, 54 (June 2008), 117–45.
Delle, James A., and Jason Shellenhamer, “Archaeology at the Parvin Homestead: Searching for the Material Legacy of the Underground Railroad,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 2, 2008), 38–62. Heavily illustrated.
Dishman, Robert B., “Ona Maria Judge Takes French Leave of Her Mistress to Live Free in New Hampshire,” Historical New Hampshire, 62 (Spring 2008), 41–65.
Eltis, David, Philip Morgan, and David Richardson, “Agency and Diaspora in Atlantic History: Reassessing the African Contribution to Rice Cultivation in the Americas,” American Historical Review, 112 (Dec. 2007), 1329–58.
Forret, Jeff, “Conflict and the ‘Slave Community’: Violence among Slaves in Upcountry South Carolina,” Journal of Southern History, 74 (Aug. 2008), 551–88.
Graber, Mark, “‘No Better Than They Deserve’: Dred Scott and Constitutional Democracy,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 589–617.
Gray, Elizabeth Kelly, “‘Whisper to Him the Word “India”’: Trans-Atlantic Critics and American Slavery, 1830–1860,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 379–406.
Gross, Ariela, “When Is the Time of Slavery? The History of Slavery in Contemporary Legal and Political Argument,” California Law Review, 96 (Feb. 2008), 283–321.
Hamilton, Cynthia S., “‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother?’: Phrenology and Anti-slavery,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 173–87.
Meyers, Terry L., “A First Look at the Worst: Slavery and Race Relations at the College of William and Mary,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 16 (April 2008), 1141–68.
Monteith, Sharon, “Sally Hemings in Visual Culture: A Radical Act of the Imagination?,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 233–46.
Oshatz, Molly, “The Problem of Moral Progress: The Slavery Debates and the Development of Liberal Protestantism in the United States,” Modern Intellectual History, 5 (Aug. 2008), 225–50.
Rossi, Joseph S., “Jesuits, Slaves, and Scholars at ‘Old Bohemia,’ 1704–1756,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 26 (Spring 2008), 1–15.
Smith, Mark A., “Engineering Slavery: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Slavery at Key West,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 86 (Spring 2008), 498–526.
Stauffer, John, “Interspatialism in the Nineteenth-Century South: The Natchez of Henry Norman,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 247–63.
Valauri, John T., “Dred Scott, Lincoln, and the Constitution: A Reply to Professor Graber,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 619–42.
White, Andrew, “A ‘Consuming’ Oppression: Sugar, Cannibalism, and John Woolman’s 1770 Slave Dream,” Quaker History, 96 (Fall 2007), 1–27.
Wood, Marcus, “Atlantic Slavery and Traumatic Representations in Museums: The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum as a Test Case,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 151–71.
Marshall, Amani N., “Enslaved Women Runaways in South Carolina, 1820–1865” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3278199.
Wilson, Karen Marguerite, “Diaspora River: Charting Continuity and Change in African Diasporic Slave Quarter Communities of the United States through Song, Story, and Dance” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3281699.
Meissner, Jochen, Ulrich Mücke, and Klaus Weber, eds., Schwarzes Amerika: Eine Geschichte der Sklaverei (Black America: A history of slavery). (München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2008. 320 pp. €26.90, isbn 978-3-406-56225-9.)
Andrews, William L., and Regina E. Mason, eds., Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxii, 145 pp. Cloth, $64.00, isbn 978-0-19-534331-1. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-19-534332-8.) Originally published in 1825.
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