This course offers a rare opportunity to explore historic slave plantation ruins on a remote island in the Bahamas as a means of interpreting the history of slavery. We examine…
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MenuCatherine A. Stewart is Professor of History at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and the author of Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project (University of North Carolina Press, 2016). Her work has appeared in American Quarterly, and Civil War History. She is currently writing her next book on African American women and household labor during the New Deal, for which she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.