By Lawrence P. Jackson (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Armed with only early boyhood memories, Lawrence P. Jackson begins his quest by setting out from his home in Baltimore for Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to find his late grandfather’s old home by the railroad tracks in Blairs. My Father’s Name tells the tale of the ensuing journey, at … Continued
By Eugene D. Genovese (NHC Fellow, 1984–85; 1987–88)
Edited by Sandra E. Greene (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2014–15), Martin A. Klein, and Alice Bellagamba What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? … Continued
By Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form–the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, NeoSlave Narratives explores the complex relationship … Continued
By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern … Continued
Edited by John Wood Sweet (NHC Fellow, 2011–12) and Lisa A. Lindsay In Biography and the Black Atlantic, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studies of slavery and the African diaspora. … Continued
By João José Reis (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) and Marcus J. M. de Carvalho This book, written in six hands by specialists in the history of slavery in Brazil, reconstructs the busy biography of Rufino José Maria and makes a comprehensive analysis of the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the 19th century. Born in … Continued
By Madeline C. Zilfi (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) Madeline C. Zilfi’s latest book examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire. In a challenge to prevailing notions, her research shows that throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries female slavery was not only central to Ottoman practice, but a critical component of imperial … Continued
By Armstead L. Robinson (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinson’s magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War. Recent studies, while conceding the importance of social factors in the unraveling of the Confederacy, … Continued
Edited by Laurent Dubois (NHC Fellow, 2008–09; 2016–17) and Julius S. Scott Between 1492 and 1820, about two-thirds of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, all the European empires settled more Africans in the New World than they did Europeans. The vast majority of these … Continued