Negotiating Slavery
Harriet Jacobs’ narrative demonstrates that slavery was not a monolithic institution of absolute power. Instead, the power dynamics of slavery frequently changed hands between master and slave, albeit how small.
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Ill Amidst the Verdant Vales
Today, it takes thirty-nine hours to drive from Eliza Hart Spalding’s hometown in east New York State to Walla Walla, Washington. In 1836, when she and Narcissa Prentiss Whitman became the first white women to cross the Rockies, it was a seven-month ordeal to reach what was then known as Oregon Territory; Mary Richardson Walker… MORE
Atlantic World and Caribbean Suggested Reading List
African Origins of Slaves in Mainland North America Carter G. Woodson, The African Background Outlined or Handbook for the Study of the Negro (Washington, D.C., 1936) Edward Franklin Frazier, The Negro Family in the United States, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1939) Melville J. Herskovits, The Myth of the Negro Past, (Boston: Beacon Press,… MORE
Berkeley Historian Thomas W. Laqueur
Thomas W. Laqueur, winner of the Mellon Foundation’s 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award, is the Helen Fawcett Professor of History at U.C. Berkeley. Professor Laqueur earned his Ph.D. in 1973 from Princeton University. His first book, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, advanced the two-sex model in sexual history. His most recent… MORE