Recent Scholarship
Slavery
Adams, Carl, “Lincoln’s First Freed Slave: A Review of Bailey v. Cromwell, 1841,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Fall–Winter 2008), 235–59.
Asadachi, Kotaro, “Nanboku senso-ki no doreishu niokeru jiyu rodo shakai-kan: Merirando shu 1864 nen shu kenpo seitei kaigi no giron kara” (The idea of free labor society in the slave states during the Civil War era: The state constitutional conventon of Maryland in 1864), Shikyo (Tsukuba), 56 (March 2008), 66–85. In Japanese.
Blackett, R. J. M., “Dispossessing Massa: Fugitive Slaves and the Politics of Slavery after 1850,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (June 2009), 119–36.
Bonner, Robert E., “Proslavery Extremism Goes to War: The Counterrevolutionary Confederacy and Reactionary Militarism,” Modern Intellectual History, 6 (Aug. 2009), 261–85.
Boster, Dea H., “An ‘Epeleptick’ Bondswoman: Fits, Slavery, and Power in the Antebellum South,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Summer 2009), 271–301.
Clymer, Jeffory A., “Family Money: Race and Economic Rights in Antebellum U.S. Law and Fiction,” American Literary History, 21 (Summer 2009), 211–38.
DePuydt, Peter J., “Free at Last, Someday: Senator Outerbridge Horsey and Manumission in the Nineteenth Century,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Spring 2009), 164–78.
Dierksheide, Christa, and Peter S. Onuf, “Slaveholding Nation, Slaveholding Civilization,” in In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals, ed. William J. Cooper Jr. and John M. McCardell Jr., 9–24. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. x, 195 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3444-3.)
Etcheson, Nicole, “John Brown, Terrorist?,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (March 2009), 29–48.
Goetz, Rebecca Anne, “Rethinking the ‘Unthinking Decision’: Old Questions and New Problems in the History of Slavery and Race in the Colonial South,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 599–612.
Kaye, Anthony E., “The Second Slavery: Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century South and the Atlantic World,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 627–50.
Lamme, Ary J., III, “Commemorative Language in Abolitionist Landscape Texts: New York’s ‘Burned-Over District,’” Southeastern Geographer, 48 (Nov. 2008), 356–72.
Lander, Kevin, and Jonathan Pritchett, “When to Care: The Economic Rationale of Slavery Health Care Provision,” Social Science History, 33 (Summer 2009), 155–82.
Mason, Matthew, “Federalists, Abolitionists, and the Problem of Influence,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 10 (March 2009), 1–27.
McIlhenny, Ryan, “‘Remember, Church-Officers, Your Awful Responsibility’: Presbyterians, Immediate Abolition, and George Bourne’s The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable,” Southern Studies, 16 (Spring–Summer 2009), 122–48.
McNair, Glenn, “Slave Women, Capital Crime, and Criminal Justice in Georgia,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Summer 2009), 135–58.
Miller, Diane, “Frontier Freedom: Seeking the Underground Railroad in Indian Territory,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Spring 2009), 76–93.
Paquette, Robert L., “‘A Horde of Brigands?’: The Great Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811 Reconsidered,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques (Waterloo), 35 (Spring 2009), 72–96.
Pargas, Damian Alan, “Disposing of Human Property: American Slave Families and Forced Separation in Comparative Perspective,” Journal of Family History, 34 (July 2009), 251–74.
Salafia, Matthew, “Searching for Slavery: Fugitive Slaves in the Ohio River Valley Borderland, 1830–1860,” Ohio Valley History, 8 (Winter 2008), 38–63.
Yagyu, Tomoko, “Nambu dorei torihiki no hatten oyobi sono Kakudai to shiji no Haikei” (The expansion of the domestic slave trade and proslavery ideology: Trading networks, business strategies, and the formation of a southern worldview), Amerika Keizaishi Kenkyu (Tokyo), 7 (2008), 21–40. In Japanese.
Foy, Charles R., “Ports of Slavery, Ports of Freedom: How Slaves Used Northern Seaports’ Maritime Industry to Escape and Create Trans-Atlantic Identities, 1713–1783” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3335526.
Hill, Matthew S., “God and Slavery in America: Francis Wayland and the Evangelical Conscience” (Georgia State University, 2008). Order No. DA3326934.
Hooper, Michael Clay, “Serviceable Selves: Antislavery, Autobiography, and the Postidealist Critique of Moral Reform, 1841–1901” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3320523.
Kim, EunHyoung, “Individualism and the Sectional Crisis: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Their Responses to Slavery and Racism” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3320428.
Mulcare, Daniel M., “Bound Government: Slavery Politics, Internal Improvements, and the Limits of National Power” (New School University, 2007). Order No. DA3333086.
Schermerhorn, Jack Lawrence (Calvin), “Against All Odds: Slavery and Enslaved Families in the Making of the Antebellum Chesapeake” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3327001.
Tanner, Kevin P. S., Jr., “‘A Foe to Sad Oppression’s Rod’: The Story of Gerrit Smith” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2008). Order No. DA3320657.
Dattel, Gene, Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009. xiv, 416 pp. $28.95, isbn 978-1-56663-747-3.)
Kim, David H., “The Unexamined Frontier: Dewey, Pragmatism, and America Enlarged,” in Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire, ed. Chad Kautzer and Eduardo Mendieta, 46–72. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xiv, 319 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-253-35311-5.)
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