… "Social Facts, Legal Fictions, and the Attribution of Slave Status: The Puzzle of Prescription" … "Social Facts, … of Slave Status: The Puzzle of Prescription" Nineteenth-century slaveholders sought the protections offered by the … distinguished jurists sought to bury the doctrine. In this talk, Rebecca Scott explores the nexus of possession and …
… written over twenty articles in academic journals and book chapters published in Brazil, Argentina, the United … Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation ( Cambridge University Press, 2010). …
… Talks Children and Violence: Catherine Panter-Brick gave a talk at the Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest (YAANW) … are promoting innovations in science and policy. The talk (Minneapolis, July 2014), described a global initiative …
… Yale Daily News: What Does the Future Hold for Russian Studies at Yale? … Yale Daily News: What Does the Future Hold for Russian Studies at Yale? … institutions and their associated faculty. Lewis told the News that the University will not prevent its faculty from …
… Yale Announces 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists … Yale Announces 2021 Frederick Douglass … calls the “greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth-century British Empire,” Brown provides an illuminating … treatment became a social revolution and how, when the fighting reached a stalemate, Coffij felt emboldened to …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… MacMillan Center awards book prizes to three faculty members … MacMillan Center … Professor of African American Studies & History, for “ Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early … window onto global imperial history in the mid-nineteenth century. The success of the English colony of Barbados in the …
… Jen Manion on Policing Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Act and the Rise of Anti Cross-Dressing Laws … Jen … (2015), which received the inaugural Mary Kelley Best Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early … project about transgender histories in the long nineteenth century. Prior to joining the faculty of Amherst College, …