Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World (RSAW) Working Group with Crystal Feimster

This week the Race and Slavery in the Atlantic World (RSAW) working group will focus on the work of Crystal Feimster.
Crystal Feimster, Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000, is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies. Feimster’s academic focus is racial and sexual violence; currently, she is completing a project on rape during the American Civil War. Her book, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, focuses on two women journalists, Ida B. Wells, who campaigned against lynching, and Rebecca Latimer Felton, who urged white men to prove their manhood by lynching black men accused of raping white women.

You can find out more information about the working group at http://rswg.yale.edu/ and more about Crystal’s work at http://afamstudies.yale.edu/people/crystal-feimster