Select Publications

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“Active Silence, Archival Presence, and an Enslaved Mother’s Legal Knowledge”

“Daniel Anderson (August 1783)”

“Historians Must Affirm the Right to Learn”

Academe Blog, November 2023

“‘JIM, (alias James Boyd;)’: Enslaved Migrant Laborers in the American North”

“‘Bloom Where You’re Planted’: Local History as Activism and Healing”

“Hereditary Term Slavery and the Pursuit of Restitution in Antebellum Pennsylvania”

“‘A Slave in Nebraska’ and Other Black Habeas Activism on the Gilded Age Plains”

“Finding Asylum: Slavery, Freedom, and Legacy in Northern Pennsylvania”

“A Just and True Return: Pennsylvania’s Surviving County Slave Registries, 1780-1826”

“For Life or Otherwise: Abolition and Slavery in South Central Pennsylvania, 1780-1847”

“From North to Natchez during the Age of Gradual Abolition”

“Policing Patriotism and the Responsibilities of Activist History”

“These are all the Independence Park exhibits that could be removed by the Trump administration next month”

“Lancaster City Witness Stones to Teach about Local Enslaved People”

“Enslaved settlers labored on Pennsylvania’s frontiers | Black History Month column”

Penn Live, February 18, 2022

If you would like a copy of any of these pieces, but cannot access them, please contact me and I will gladly send you one.