Books by Fellows

Since the inception of the AAS fellowship program in 1972, fellows have written over five hundred books based on research conducted at AAS. Below is an illustrated directory of these books. Books may be sorted by author's last name, title, date, subject, and fellowship. Many public programs featuring fellows discussing their books have also been recorded and made available to view online.

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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home by Richard Bell

Richard Bell

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2007-2008

Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home

(Simon & Schuster, 2020)

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2020 Public Program

Racial Innocence book cover

Robin Bernstein

Last Fellow, 2008-9

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights

(New York University Press, 2011)

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Cover for Roots of African-American Identity

Elizabeth Bethel

Peterson Fellow, 1985-86

The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in the Antebellum Free Communities

(St. Martin's Press, 1997)

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David Blight

David Blight

Peterson Fellow, 1996-97

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

(Harvard University Press, 2000)

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2012 Public Program

Civil War Canon book cover

Thomas Brown

Peterson Fellow, 2003-4

Civil War Canon: Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina

(University of North Carolina Press, 2015)

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Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon by Scott Casper

Scott Casper

Peterson Fellow, 1998-99

Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine

(Hill and Wang, 2008)

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2008 Public Program

Transformable Race book cover

Katy Chiles

Botein Fellow, 2014-15

Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America

(Oxford University Press, 2014)

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Early African American Print Culture edited by Lara Langer Cohen

Lara Langer Cohen

Botein Fellow, 2008-9

Early African American Print Culture

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)

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Slavery on Trial book cover

Jeannine DeLombard

NEMLA Fellow, 2001-2

Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture

(University of North Carolina Press, 2007)

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Suck on the Marrow by Camille Dungy

Camille Dungy

Hearst Fellow, 2005

Suck on the Marrow

(Red Hen Press, 2010)

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Bright Radical Star book cover

Robert Dykstra

Research Associate, 1985-86

Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier

(Harvard University Press, 1993)

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The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation book cover

Benjamin Fagan

Tracy Fellow, 2008-9

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation

(University of Georgia Press, 2016)

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Book cover for Carribean Crossing

Sara Fanning

Tracy Fellow, 2004-5

Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement

(New York University Press, 2015)

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Book cover for Relative Races

Brigitte Fielder

Last Fellow, 2011-12

Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-century America

(Duke University Press, 2020)

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2020 PHBAC Virtual Book Talk

Bonds of Union by Bridget Ford

Bridget Ford

Hench Fellow, 2002-3

Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland

(University of North Carolina Press, 2016)

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Book cover of A Spectacular Secret

Jacqueline Goldsby

Peterson Fellow, 2000-1

A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature

(University of Chicago Press, 2006)

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Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the 19th Century by Aston Gonzalez

Aston Gonzalez

Last Fellow, 2011-12

Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

(University of North Carolina Press, 2020)

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2021 CHAViC Webinar

book cover of Barbaric Traffic

Philip Gould

NEMLA Fellow, 1999-00

Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

(Harvard University Press, 2003)

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book cover for William Wells Brown: An African American Life

Ezra Greenspan

2009-10

William Wells Brown: An African American Life

(W. W. Norton & Company, 2014)

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 Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas by Sally Hadden

Sally Hadden

Peterson Fellow, 1994-95

Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas

(Harvard University Press, 2001)

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book cover for Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution

Barbara Hochman

NEMLA Fellow, 2001-2

Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851–1911

(University of Massachusetts Press, 2011)

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David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Peterson Fellow, 1999-00

David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City

(University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

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Bookcover for Hard Road to Freedom

Lois E. Horton and James Oliver Horton

2010-11

Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of Black America, Vol. 1

(Oxford University Press, 2021)

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Bookcover for Hard Road to Freedom, Vol. 2

Lois E. Horton and James Oliver Horton

2010-11

Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of Black America, Vol. 2

(Oxford University Press, 2021)

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The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Baron Fellow, 2009

The Age of Phillis

(Wesleyan University Press, 2020)

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2020 Public Program

book cover for Soldiers of Light and Love

Jacqueline Jones

Daniels Fellow, 1974-75

Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873

(University of Georgia Press, 1980)

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book cover for Against the Gallows

Paul Christian Jones

Peterson Fellow, 2007-8

Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment

(University of Iowa Press, 2011)

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book cover for The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare

Sean Kelley

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2008-9

The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina

(University of North Carolina Press, 2019)

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Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero by Kate CliffordLarson

Kate Clifford Larson

Legacy Fellow, 2001-2

Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero

(Ballantine Books, 2004)

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Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform by Bruce Laurie

Bruce Laurie

AAS-NEH Fellow, 1993-94

Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform

(Cambridge University Press, 2005)

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Miscegenation: Making Race in America by Elise Lemire

Elise Lemire

Peterson Fellow, 1994-95

Miscegenation: Making Race in America

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002)

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book cover for Ten Hills Farm

Catherine Manegold

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2005-6

Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North

(Princeton University Press, 2011)

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The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio by Stephen Middleton

Stephen Middleton

Peterson Fellow, 1994-95

The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio

(Ohio University Press, 2005)

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Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814 by Sean Moore

Sean Moore

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2014-15

Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814

(Oxford University Press, 2019)

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Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement by Jessie Morgan-Owens

Jessie Morgan-Owens

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2012-13

Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement

(W. W. Norton & Company, 2019)

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book cover for Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Nell Irvin Painter

Peterson Fellow, 1991-92

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

(W. W. Norton & Company, 1996)

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book cover for The Strangers Book

Lloyd Pratt

NEMLA Fellow, 2008-9

The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

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Bookcover for Colored Travelers

Elizabeth Pryor

Peterson Fellow, 2010-11

Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War

(University of North Carolina Press, 2016)

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Bookcover for Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery

Daniel Rood

Hench Fellow, 2010-11

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean

(Oxford University Press, 2020)

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book cover for Accounting for Slavery

Caitlin Rosenthal

Botein Fellow, 2010-11

Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management

(Harvard University Press, 2018)

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book cover for Abolitionist Geographies

Martha Schoolman

Peterson Fellow, 2006-7

Abolitionist Geographies

(University of Minnesota Press, 2014)

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Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor by Tanya Sheehan

Tanya Sheehan

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2009-10

Study in Black and White: Photography, Race, Humor.

(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018)

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Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic by James Sidbury

James Sidbury

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002-3

Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic

(Oxford University Press, 2007)

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The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha

Manisha Sinha

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2004-5

The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition

(Yale University Press, 2016)

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2017 Public Program

Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson by Christina Synder

Christina Snyder

Peterson Fellow, 2012-13

Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson

(Oxford University Press, 2017)

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Book cover for Practice of Citizenship

Derrick Spires

Peterson Fellow, 2008-9

The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

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2020 PHBAC Virtual Book Talk

Origins of the Black Press: New York, 1827-1847

Bernell Tripp

Botein Fellow, 1991-92

Origins of the Black Press: New York, 1827-1847

(Vision Press, 1992)

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Brothers Among Nations

Cynthia Van Zandt

Botein Fellow, 2001-2

Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660

(Oxford University Press, 2008)

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Book cover for The Trials of Anthony Burns

Albert von Frank

Peterson Fellow, 1995-96

The Trials of Anthony Burns Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston

(Harvard University Press, 1998)

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book cover for Slavery and Sacred Text

Jordan Watkins

Peterson Fellow, 2015-16

Slavery and Sacred Text: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America

(Cambridge University Press, 2021)

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One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870 by Karen Woods Weierman

Karen Woods Weierman

AAS-NEH Fellow, 2000-1

One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870

(University of Massachusetts Press, 2005)

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The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech by Shane White and Graham White

Shane White

Peterson Fellow, 1990-91

The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech

(Beacon Press, 2005)

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A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten by Julie Winch

Julie Winch

Peterson Fellow, 1987-88

A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten

(Oxford University Press, 2002)

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Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England America, 1780-1865 by Marcus Wood

Marcus Wood

Peterson Fellow, 1992-93

Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England America, 1780-1865

(Routledge, 2000)

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book cover for Bonds of Salvation

Ben Wright

Peterson Fellow, 2015-16

Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism

(Louisiana State University Press, 2020)

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Book cover for Black Girlhood

Nazera Sadiq Wright

Ford Fellow, 2013-14

Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century

(University of Illinois Press, 2016)

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2019 Public Program

Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning by Rafia Zafar

Rafia Zafar

Peterson Fellow, 1999-00

Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning

(University of Georgia Press, 2019)

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