In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection
of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late …

The paper addresses the central issue of the relationship between slavery and industrial
capitalism. It does so by re-examining Eric Williams's classic account and recent debates …

Using a critical analysis approach, I investigated the dominant narrative of slavery and
African Americans prior to the Civil War in the 2011 South Carolina Social Studies Academic …

Winner of the 2020 Sarah A. Whaley Book Prize from the National Women's Studies
Association Putting Their Hands on Race offers an important labor history of 19th and early …

Wage-Earning Slaves is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves
worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments, long recognized as a distinctive …

The Civil War Dead and American Modernity offers a fundamental rethinking of the cultural
importance of the American Civil War dead. Tracing their representational afterlife across a …

The starting point of this article is the observation that thousands of enslaved people
escaped bondage and managed to find refuge in the city of Baltimore between 1800 and …

This article focuses on the jurisdictional conflicts that emerged at the juncture of the
transplanted legalities that followed the Caucasian expulsion in the 1850s and 1860s, the …

Since the early 1980s, scholarship across disciplines has employed the" ghostly" as critical
lens for understanding the upheavals of modernity. The ghost stands metaphorically for the …

This dissertation examines the colonial history of medical rights in Latin America through a
study of the world's first vaccine. The Spanish introduced the smallpox vaccine to their …