Monthly Archives: March 2015

Adam Rothman, Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015). Adam Rothman’s very recent work, Beyond Freedom’s Reach, uses a micro historical approach to articulate the complexities of the Emancipation Proclamation’s effectiveness, … Continue reading →

Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Thavolia Glymph examines the power relations between black and white women within the plantation household over the antebellum years, throughout wartime, … Continue reading →

Stephen David Kantrowitz, More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829–1889 (New York: The Penguin Press, 2012).   Stephen David Kantrowitz presents a unique periodization of the nineteenth century to explain the legacy of black activists … Continue reading →