Stephanie Camp
Books by Stephanie Camp
“This is one of my all-time favorite books. It’s a history of enslaved women’s efforts to escape some of the harsher and more violent moments of their enslavement. It traces enslaved women’s lives in the deep South from the antebellum period through the Civil War.” Read more...
Barbara Krauthamer, Historian
Interviews where books by Stephanie Camp were recommended
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Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915
by Mitch Kachun -
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Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
by Barbara Krauthamer & Deborah Willis -
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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
by Stephanie Camp -
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To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War
by Tera Hunter -
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A Black Women's History of the United States
by Daina Berry & Kali Gross
The Best Books for Juneteenth, recommended by Barbara Krauthamer
The Best Books for Juneteenth, recommended by Barbara Krauthamer
June 19th, or ‘Juneteenth,’ is a holiday commemorating the final end of slavery in the United States. Professor Barbara Krauthamer, a leading historian of African American slavery and emancipation, talks us through its significance down the decades and which books to read to get a better understanding of what it’s all about.
