Please join the Lapidus Center for a conversation between the 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize winner Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Associate Professor of History at the University of California-Berkeley, and Dr. Thavolia Glymph, Professor of History and Law at Duke University.
Drs. Jones-Rogers and Glymph will discuss Jones-Rogers' They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, a regional study that draws upon formerly enslaved people's testimony to dramatically reshape current understandings of white women's economic relationships to slavery as well as Jones-Rogers' works in progress on gender, race, and slavery. They Were Her Property foregrounds the testimony of enslaved and formerly enslaved people and puts their reflections into conversation with other narrative sources, legal documents, and financial records in order to show how white women's pecuniary investments in the institution shaped their gender identities and to situate them at the center of 19th century America's most significant and devastating system of economic exchange.
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ABOUT THE INTERLOCUTOR |
Dr. Thavolia Glymph is a professor of history and law at Duke University. Her work focuses on slavery, emancipation, plantation societies and economies, Reconstruction, and black political thought in the nineteenth-century U.S. South. She is the author of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge University Press, 2008) which received the Philip Taft Prize in Labor and Working-Class History and was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize, and The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), a finalist for the 2021 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. She is a co-editor of two volumes of the award-winning documentary series Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Series 1, Volume 1 and Series 1, Volume 3).
This program will be streamed on Zoom and simulcast to Youtube. You must register with your email address in order to receive the link to participate. Please check your email shortly before the discussion to receive the link. Captions for this event will be provided.
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