John Brooke is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Anthropology at Ohio State University. He is also Director of the Ohio State University Center for Historical Research. This interview is based on his new book, “There...
Fugitive Slave Act
The Problem of “Reconciling Irreconcilable Values”
Andrew Delbanco‘s new book is titledĀ The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul From the Revolution to the Civil War.Ā While I was on the road last week I listened to Delbanco’s interview with Terry...
Free Blacks as Refugees
Stephen Kantrowitz is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a recent essay atĀ Boston Review he compares the racial plight of escaped slaves and free blacks in...