Karen Cook Bell

On War and U.S. Slavery: Enslaved Black Women’s Experiences

The experiences of enslaved women and girls in the wars of the United States has garnered increased scholarly attention, most

The Denmark Vesey conspiracy transformed how enslavers viewed free and unfree men who labored in the cities and countryside of

On March 5, 1770, a twenty-three-year-old woman, her eight-month-old daughter, and her husband escaped from bondage in Leacock Township in

What is the price of freedom? Is it worth the cost if failure means a return to slavery or death?

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery