Revisionist Slavery Research
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Books
The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (Cambridge University Press, 2003) See Books for details
Slavery in the American Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2003) See Books for details
Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2008) See Books for details
The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996) See Books for details
Scholarly Library Archive Website
Articles & Book Chapters Click links to read
"Diaspora History Construction and Counter-hegemonic Culture Formation by Slaves on Small U.S. Plantations." Protosociology: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research 20 (Summer 2004): 186-200
1999. "Diaspora, Death and Sexual Exploitation: Slave Families at Risk in the Mountain South." Appalachian Journal 26 (2).
2004. Reply to Reviewers of Two Slavery Books in Letters to the Editor, Appalachian Journal (Winter 2004)
2000. "Put in Master's Pocket: Cotton Expansion and Interstate Slave Trading in the Mountain South." In Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, edited by John Inscoe. University Press of Kentucky.
2011. “Nonwaged Peasants in the Modern World-System: African Households as Dialectical Units of Capitalist Exploitation and Indigenous Resistance, 1890-1930.” Journal of Philosophical Economics 4 (1): 19-57.
Presentations & Lectures Click links to read
2013. "The Civil War and Emancipation through the Eyes of Appalachian Slaves." Lecture at Abraham Lincoln Library & Museum Harrogate, Tennessee (20 April 2013)
2009. "Slavery and Black Appalachian Families" Lecture presented to the American Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, 10 March.
2008. "Never Safe in the Family Way: Challenging the Dominant Paradigm in U.S. Slavery Studies." Keynote Address for Women's History Month, Radford University (February 29, 2008).
2005. "Challenging the Dominant Paradigm: The World Market in Cotton, U.S. Slave Trading, and Destruction of African-American Families." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Meeting, August 2005.