John Wood Sweet (NHC Fellow, 2011–12)
Project Title
The Captive's Tale: Venture Smith and the Roots of the American Republic
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2011–12
John Wood Sweet
spent the year working on his book The Captive’s Tale: Venture Smith and the Roots of the American Republic. He also coedited, with Lisa Lindsay, a volume of essays based on a symposium held at the Center, The Black Atlantic and the Biographical Turn, to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2013.