I have loved books since I was old enough to read. Some of my most treasured memories are quiet afternoons that I spent with my mom at the public library, testing the seams of a ratty Book of the Month Club tote bag filled with books that we proceeded to devour over the next two weeks, only to exchange them for a fresh batch once we swapped stacks. Many an afternoon was spent with my mom on the couch and me on a floor cushion, our noses firmly stuck in a book, with only … [Read more...] about What I Am Reading: Colleen Vasconcellos
Colleen Vasconcellos
Colleen Vasconcellos is Professor of Atlantic History at the University of West Georgia. She is the author of Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838 and the co-editor, with Jennifer Hillman Helgren, of Girlhood: A Global History.