Recent Scholarship
Slavery
Bernier, Celeste-Marie, “‘Iron Arguments’: Spectacle, Rhetoric, and the Slave Body in New England and British Antislavery Oratory,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 1, 2007), 57–78.
Emlen, Robert P., “Slave Labor at the College Edifice: Building Brown University’s University Hall in 1770,” Rhode Island History, 66 (Summer 2008), 35–45.
Jaffa, Harry V., “Dred Scott Revisited,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 31 (Winter 2008), 197–217.
Keil, Hartmut, “Francis Lieber’s Attitudes on Race, Slavery, and Abolition,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 13–33.
Klein, Diane J., “Naming and Framing the ‘Subject’ of Antebellum Slave Contracts: Introducing Julia, ‘a Certain Negro Slave,’ ‘a Man,’ Joseph, Eliza, and Albert,” Rutgers Race & the Law Review, 9 (no. 2, 2008), 243–84.
Koo, Kathryn S., “Strangers in the House of God: Cotton Mather, Onesimus, and an Experiment in Christian Slaveholding,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 1, 2007), 143–76.
Mensel, Robert E., “Originalism and Ancestor Worship in the Post-Heroic Era: The Dred Scott Opinions,” Widener Law Journal, 17 (no. 1, 2007), 29–54.
Nishide, Keiichi, “Jojia ni okeru doreisei he no tenkann” (Transition to plantation slavery in colonial Georgia: Land granting and slave headrights), Ritsumeikan Bungaku (Kyoto), 597 (2007), 92–100. In Japanese.
Rao, Gautham, “The Federal Posse Comitatus Doctrine: Slavery, Compulsion, and Statecraft in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America,” Law & History Review, 26 (Spring 2008), 1–56.
Rosengarten, Dale, “By the Rivers of Babylon: The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom,” in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, 104–21. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Bossy, Denise Ileana, “The ‘Noble Savage’ in Chains: Indian Slavery in Colonial South Carolina, 1670–1735” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3293298.
Kyles, Perry L., “The Men behind the Market: Merchants, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Shaping of South Carolina Plantation Society, 1700–1756” (Florida International University, 2007). Order No. DA3298590.
Marin, Craig Thomas, “Coercion, Cooperation, and Conflict along the Charleston Waterfront, 1739–1785: Navigating the Social Waters of an Atlantic Port City” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3300521.
Calarco, Tom, People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xxxii, 377 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-313-33924-0.)
Rosengarten, Dale, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.) Heavily illustrated. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Singer, Alan J., New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii, 166 pp. Cloth, $49.50, isbn 978-0-7914-7509-6. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-7914-7510-2.)
Yellin, Jean Fagan, ed., The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Vol 1: lxxxii, 396 pp. Vol. 2: xl, 533 pp. Cloth, $125.00/set, isbn 978-0-8078-3131-1/set.) Inlcudes cd.
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