Further Reading on Slavery & Freedom
A Curse Upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World, Kay Wright Lewis
Kay Wright Lewis
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Marissa Fuentes
Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati’s Black Community 1802-1868
Nikki M. Taylor
In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
Leslie M. Harris*
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
Daina Ramey Berry
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
Leslie M. Harris* and Daina Ramey Berry
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Stephanie Jones-Rogers
To ‘Joy My Freedom’: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War
Tera Hunter
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction
Kate Masur*
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Jessica Marie Johnson
*Northwestern faculty