Jared Hardesty

What’s in a List?: Early African Americans in an Age of Consumer Revolution

As many scholars of early African American life can attest, one of the most vexing aspects of doing research is

This week (June 13-18), the AAIHS will be hosting a roundtable on Neil Roberts’s Freedom as Marronage (University of Chicago

Over the past few months, I have been writing posts exploring pre-modern black intellectual history. They have largely focused on

In the 1670s, an enslaved woman named Hannah appeared before Boston’s criminal court accused of stealing surgical equipment from Daniel

Ezekiel Price was a notary public in Boston, Massachusetts whose career spanned from the 1750s until the 1780s. He dutifully