Recent Scholarship
Slavery
Berry, Daina Ramey, “‘In Pressing Need of Cash’: Gender, Skill, and Family Persistence in the Domestic Slave Trade,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Winter 2007), 22–36.
Bond, Edward L., “Slavery in the Diocese of Mississippi’s Convention Journals, 1826–1861,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 78 (March 2009), 94–104.
Graebner, N. Brooks, “The Episcopal Church and Race in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 78 (March 2009), 84–93.
Handler, Jerome S., “The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 30 (March 2009), 1–26.
Hudson, Linda S., “The Knights of the Golden Circle in Texas, 1858–1861: An Analysis of the First (Military) Degree Knights,” in The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas during the Civil War, ed. Kenneth W. Howell, 52–67. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2009. xiv, 348 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-57441-259-8.)
Johnson, Sara E., “‘You Should Give Them Blacks to Eat’: Waging Inter-American Wars of Torture and Terror,” American Quarterly, 61 (March 2009), 65–92.
King, Wilma, “‘Mad’ Enough to Kill: Enslaved Women, Murder, and Southern Courts,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Winter 2007), 37–56.
Kyles, Perry L., “Resistance and Collaboration: Political Strategies within the Afro-Carolinian Slave Community, 1700–1750,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Fall 2008), 497–508.
McBurney, Christian M., “Cato Pearce’s Memoir: A Rhode Island Slave Narrative,” Rhode Island History, 67 (Winter–Spring 2009), 3–25.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown, “Documenting a Slave’s Birth, Parentage, and Origins: (Marie Thérèse Coincoin, 1742–1816); A Test of ‘Oral History,’” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 96 (Dec. 2008), 245–66.
Mustakeem, Sowande, “‘I Never Have Such a Sickly Ship Before’: Diet, Disease, and Mortality in 18th-Century Atlantic Slaving Voyages,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Fall 2008), 474–96.
Olson, Joel, “Friends and Enemies, Slaves and Masters: Fanaticism, Wendell Phillips, and the Limits of Democratic Theory,” Journal of Politics, 71 (Jan. 2009), 82–95.
Penningroth, Dylan, “Writing Slavery’s History,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (April 2009), 13–20.
Plank, Geoffrey, “The First Person in Antislavery Literature: John Woolman, His Clothes, and His Journal,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 30 (March 2009), 67–91.
Pritchett, Jonathan, and Myeong-Su Yun, “The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860,” Explorations in Economic History, 46 (April 2009), 241–52.
Richardson, William J., “The Life and Times of Samuel H. Davis: An Anti-slavery Activist,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 47–90.
Rothman, Adam, “Slavery and National Expansion in the United States,” oah Magazine of History, 23 (April 2009), 23–29.
Soifer, Aviam, “De Facto Slavery and the ‘Syren Songs of Liberty and Equality’: Carol Weisbrod, Much Obliged,” Connecticut Law Review, 40 (July 2008), 1315–28.
Stevenson, Brenda E., “The Question of the Slave Female Community and Culture in the American South: Methodological and Ideological Approaches,” Journal of African American History, 92 (Winter 2007), 74–95.
Suponitskaya, I. M., “Amerikanskie rabovladel’tsy o sebe: Legendy i real’nost” (American slaveholders on themselves: Legends and realities), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 83–101. In Russian.
Troxler, Carole Watterson, “Re-enslavement of Black Loyalists: Mary Postell in South Carolina, East Florida, and Nova Scotia,” Acadiensis (Fredericton), 37 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 70–85.
Vanderford, Chad, “Proslavery Professors: Classic Natural Right and the Positive Good Argument in Antebellum Virginia,” Civil War History, 55 (March 2009), 5–30.
Williams-Myers, A. J., “Contested Ground: Hinterland Slavery in Colonial New York,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 91–137.
Byron, Tammy K., “‘A Catechism for Their Special Use’: Slave Catechisms in the Antebellum South” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3317841.
Thompson, Robert S., “Soil and Slaves: An Environmental History of Northeastern North Carolina, 1584–1860” (University of Houston, 2008). Order No. DA3318770.
Turigliatto-Fahrney, Terri A., “Slavery and Religion in the Atlantic World: A Comparative Study of Christianity’s Impact on Identity Formation among Slaves in Colonial Spanish and British America, 1530–1800” (Saint Louis University, 2008). Order No. DA3324230.
Roberts-Miller, Patricia, Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. x, 286 pp. $38.75, isbn 978-0-8173-1642-6.)
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