Lecture: Stephanie Jones-Rogers

"They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South," Stephanie Jones-Rogers, associate professor of history, University of California, Berkeley. 

Part of a series on Gender, Race, and Slavery in the Atlantic World, presented by the History and Gender Workshop, a Research Seminar of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

Jones-Rogers will discuss her book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale U Press, 2020), a regional study that draws upon formerly enslaved people's testimony to dramatically reshape current understandings of white women's economic relationships to slavery. Jones-Rogers's research focuses primarily upon gender and American slavery, but she is equally fascinated with colonial and 19th century legal and economic history, especially as it pertains to women, systems of bondage, and the slave trade.

This talk will be presented remotely via Zoom. Reservation details will be announced at https://history.uga.edu/events/content/2020/they-were-her-property-white-women-slave-owners-american-south-dr-stephanie. Graduate students in history who attend will receive a copy of the book in advance. A short presentation about the book will be followed by a Q and A session and general conversation.