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Panting After History

Panting After History

By Jonathan Beecher Field In the fall of 2023, I had the privilege of being the Laramy Fellow in American Visual Culture at the Clements Library to pursue my interest in their extensive 19th-century ephemera holdings. My research trip to the Clements was part of a...
“Notions of Freedom”: Slavery and Escape in the Southeastern Caribbean

“Notions of Freedom”: Slavery and Escape in the Southeastern Caribbean

Guest post by Patrick T. Barker, Clements Library 2019 Price Fellow. An earlier version of this post was published on April 7, 2020; it has been retitled and expanded with additional material.   During the early 1770s fugitives from slavery fled by sea from the...