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Hey Dashhounds, it's our favorite month for creepy tales at Strange Country! October brings warmish temperatures at night, hot sunny days, hurricanes with power that you have never seen before, and the uncomfortable feeling of politics gone wrong--rarely landing with a woman in charge. Today Beth and Kelly bring you the story of the Night of Terror. Enjoy! Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands. Cite your sources, dude: Deuel, Nathan. “Book Prize winner Stephanie Jones-Rogers on women slave owners.” Los Angeles Times, 17 April 2020, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-17/female-slave-owners-independent-brutal-stephanie-jones-rogers. Accessed 22 July 2024. Jones Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property. https://archive.org/details/they-were-her-property-white-women-as-slave-owners-in-the-american-south-pdfdrive/page/205/mode/2up. Kell, Gretchen. “Unmasked: Many white women were Southern slave owners, too.” Berkeley News, 25 October 2019, https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/10/25/white-women-slaveholders-q-a/. Accessed 22 July 2024. “Madame LaLaurie | The story of Delphine LaLaurie, of New Orleans.” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion/madame-lalaurie/. Accessed 22 July 2024.

Things are changing in ‘Merica, we can feel it. Join Beth and Kelly today as we tell the tale of white women in the south who played a very major role in the trading of enslaved people during the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a story that has only recently been uncovered and exposed thanks to the research work of Stephanie Jones-Rogers and her book They Were Her Property. Now after years of historians painting pictures of the delicate flowers known as white Southern Belles married to men who owned enslaved people, do we learn that the women—these wives—were some of the worst, most evil and violent part of the entire slave economy. And maybe this explains why we have women today supporting the most racist and misogynist former president we have ever seen. Because old habits die hard. Thank you for listening; it's an act of love. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands. Cite your sources, dude: Deuel, Nathan. “Book Prize winner Stephanie Jones-Rogers on women slave owners.” Los Angeles Times, 17 April 2020, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-04-17/female-slave-owners-independent-brutal-stephanie-jones-rogers. Accessed 22 July 2024. Jones Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property. https://archive.org/details/they-were-her-property-white-women-as-slave-owners-in-the-american-south-pdfdrive/page/205/mode/2up. Kell, Gretchen. “Unmasked: Many white women were Southern slave owners, too.” Berkeley News, 25 October 2019, https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/10/25/white-women-slaveholders-q-a/. Accessed 22 July 2024. “Madame LaLaurie | The story of Delphine LaLaurie, of New Orleans.” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion/madame-lalaurie/. Accessed 22 July 2024.

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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers' is a historian whose work has shed new light on the roles that women played in American slavery. In this episode, she joins Ben and Bob to share some of the significant findings of her work, the sources she's used to learn more about enslaved people and female slaveowners, and her new project, which reorients our understanding of the British Atlantic slave trade by centering the story on the lives of both free and captive women.  Dr. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is Associate Professor of History at the University California, Berkeley and the author of the award-winning book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019). She is also one of the recipients of the 2023 Dan Davis Prize, which recognizes outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history.  This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.

Dr. Vincent Lloyd, Director of Africana Studies at Villanova University, talks to theologian and social theorist Matt Vega about his doctoral research around racial capital, which Vega examines through personal, theological, and academic lenses. Vega's understanding of the relationship between race and capitalism, he says, was greatly influenced by political scientist Dr. Michael C. Dawson, who administered Vega's “Race and Capitalism” Qualifying Examination at the University of Chicago. (Vega highly recommends watching this breakdown of race and capitalism by Dr. Dawson.) Vega's recent essay on racial capitalism is part of the Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0 series on the Political Theology Network. In this episode of OP Talks, he encourages theologians to think through the relationship between race, capitalism, and theology for three reasons: 1. "First, there's the origin reason. So, modern conceptions of race and the origins of capitalism as a distinct mode of production emerged within the context of mission." 2. "The second reason is the conversation reason. I think studying racial capitalism is important for theologians to foster cross-cultural conversations about how dynamics of race and capitalism might both be at work, rather than thinking about one at the exclusion of the other." 3. "The last reason it's important for theologians is because I think it should push us to think about the sources we have within our traditions [with which] to think about or respond to racial capitalism." ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Dawson, Michael C. “Why Race and Capitalism Not Racial Capitalism? (Critical Race Studies): Racial Capitalism(s) I.” Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, 25 March 2021. Dawson, Michael C. and Emily A. Katzenstein. “Articulated Darkness: White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and Capitalism in Shelby's Dark Ghettos.” The Journal of Political Philosophy 27.2, June 2019: 252-268. Jennings, Willie James. The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race. Yale University Press, 2011. Lloyd, Vincent. Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination. Yale University Press, 2022. Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. Yale University Press, 2020. Robinson, Cedric James Robinson. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Zed Press, 1983. [PDF] Vega, Matthew. CRITICAL THEORY FOR POLITICAL THEOLOGY 2.0: Racial Capitalism. Political Theology Network, 3 May 2022.

(Note: This interview first aired back in February.) Our guest is Michelle Commander, an Associate Director and Curator at The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, which is a branch of the New York Public Library located in Harlem. The Schomberg Center has put out a pathbreaking new anthology, which she tells us about. The book is "Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery and Abolition." It's a well-edited volume that gathers various writings and texts in order to convey the full historical arc of transatlantic slavery in the US. Per a starred review in Library Journal: "[A] remarkable anthology.... As a whole, this collection showcases the vastness of Black thinking and writing, and nicely complements works by Martha S. Jones and Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. Complete with a list of suggestions for further reading, this winning anthology is a must for all interested in Black history, but unsure where to start."

We had the honor of talking to Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, historian and author of They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. Listeners of the podcast already know how much we revere her work and have learned from reading her research. It is even more enlightening to talk with Stephanie and learn about her background and approach to this topic and get her thoughts and advice for what it means for white women today.  Petty detectives unite! For links and more episodes, visit ourdirtylaundrypodcast.com.  Listen anywhere you get podcasts.

In this episode, I speak with Pernilla Myrne and Laury Silvers about the limits of historical sources, the methods historians employ to uncover the lives of the marginalized in society, and the role of the imaginative as a space for giving voice to the silenced. Sources cited in the episode:Abdel-Latif, Sara. “Narrativizing Early Mystic and Sufi Women: Mechanisms of gendering in Sufi hagiographies,” Routledge Handbook of Sufism. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave-Owners in the American South. Yale University Press, 2019.Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.Nguyen, Martin. Sufi Master and Qur’an Scholar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ContributorsPernilla Myrne is an Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has published on the representation of women and women as creative agents in pre-modern Arabic literature, including the monograph Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World (IB Tauris, 2020), history of emotions and slavery. Her current research explores the manuscript traditions and reception of medieval Arabic sex advice manuals, aiming at looking into attitudes to sexuality in the medieval Islamic world.Laury Silvers is a retired historian of early Sufism and the lives and practices of early pious and mystic women who writes historical mysteries set in the time and place of her research. Follow her on Twitter @waraqamusa and explore her website for the historical background of the novels and audio readings. The first two of her historical mysteries The Lover and

In this episode, I speak with Pernilla Myrne and Laury Silvers about the limits of historical sources, the methods historians employ to uncover the lives of the marginalized in society, and the role of the imaginative as a space for giving voice to the silenced. Sources cited in the episode: - Abdel-Latif, Sara. “Narrativizing Early Mystic and Sufi Women: Mechanisms of gendering in Sufi hagiographies,” Routledge Handbook of Sufism. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. - Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave-Owners in the American South. Yale University Press, 2019. - Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. - Nguyen, Martin. Sufi Master and Qur'an Scholar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Contributors: Pernilla Myrne is an Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has published on the representation of women and women as creative agents in pre-modern Arabic literature, including the monograph Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World (IB Tauris, 2020), history of emotions and slavery. Her current research explores the manuscript traditions and reception of medieval Arabic sex advice manuals, aiming at looking into attitudes to sexuality in the medieval Islamic world. Laury Silvers is a retired historian of early Sufism and the lives and practices of early pious and mystic women who writes historical mysteries set in the time and place of her research. Follow her on Twitter @waraqamusa and explore her website for the historical background of the novels and audio readings. The first two of her historical mysteries The Lover and The Jealous in the Sufi Mysteries quartet are available for purchase, with additional information on her website www.llsilvers.com.

Our guest is Michelle Commander, an Associate Director and Curator at The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, which is a branch of the New York Public Library located in Harlem. The Schomberg Center has recently put out a pathbreaking new anthology, which she tells us about. The book is "Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery and Abolition." It's a thorough and well-edited volume that traces gathers various writings and texts in order to convey the full historical arc of transatlantic slavery in the US. Per a starred review in Library Journal: "[A] remarkable anthology.... As a whole, this collection showcases the vastness of Black thinking and writing, and nicely complements works by Martha S. Jones and Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. Complete with a list of suggestions for further reading, this winning anthology is a must for all interested in Black history, but unsure where to start."

Cornelia Jefferson Randolph to Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist, 11 Aug. 1833 In which Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter Cornelia Jefferson Randolph describes the beating of an enslaved woman in the basement of their Washington, D.C. home. Further Reading: Read along with the text of this letter here: https://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/1241 They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/they-were-her-property-stephanie-e-jones-rogers/1129229955 More about Melinda and John Freeman: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0223 Martha Jefferson Randolph on Willie: https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/charles-lewis-bankhead#footnote5_tw1n2ty "for my part I have lived so long among slaves that though I disapprove of the system as much as any one can do, I have quite an affection for them & like to be served by them." https://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/1219

It's easy to think of slave holding as a male profession. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and countless other men are often the names that come to mind when we think about early Americans who held other people in bondage. But white women, especially in the American South, were equally invested in slavery as owners in human property. A new generation of historians is helping us to understand why and how. One such scholar is Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers of the University California-Berkeley. She is the author of the new book, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, which recently won the LA Times Book Prize in History and the Best Book Award from the Society for Historians of the Early Republic. On today's episode, we bring you the audio version of Library Executive Director Dr. Kevin Butterfield's recent live stream interview with Dr. Jones-Rogers. It's an illuminating look at an underexplored topic that were only just beginning to better understand. About Our Guest: Stephanie Jones-Rogers is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley where she specializes in African-American history, the history of American slavery, and women's and gender history. She is the author of the book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019), which won the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic's 2020 Best Book Prize and the Organization of American Historians' 2020 Merle Curti Prize for the best book in American social history. She is also the first African-American and the third woman to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History since the award's inception in 1980. A former faculty member at the University of Iowa, Jones-Rogers received her Ph.D. in African-American History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 2012. About Our Guest Host: Kevin C. Butterfield is the  Executive Director of the Washington Library. He comes to Mount Vernon from the University of Oklahoma, where he served as the Director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage and Constitutional Studies Program, holding an appointment as the Wick Cary Professor and Associate Professor of Classics and Letters. He is the author of The Making of Tocqueville's America: Law and Association in the Early United States (Chicago, 2015).

In this episode, I discuss the international tours Terry Jones Rogers has taken part in. We further discuss the bands that he has been involved with and those he still is. Terry Jones Rogers has had quite a career touring with the Birds and subsequent bands afterword as well. The tours he has been involved in span most of Europe and even Brazil. For more information about their band please see the link here: www.one-eyedparrot.com or http://www.one-eyedparrot.com/terry-jones-rogers.html For vides see Terry Jones Rogers Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsJp7Sghn6WGIRJLt0BxmbQ Please let us know your thoughts or comments by leaving a review or by emailing internationalimmersionpodcast@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/international-immersion/message

It’s easy to think of slave holding as a male profession. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and countless other men are often the names that come to mind when we think about early Americans who held other people in bondage. But white women, especially in the American South, were equally invested in slavery as owners in human property. A new generation of historians is helping us to understand why and how. One such scholar is Dr. Stephanie Jones-Rogers of the University California-Berkeley. She is the author of the new book, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, which recently won the LA Times Book Prize in History and the Best Book Award from the Society for Historians of the Early Republic. On today’s episode, we bring you the audio version of Library Executive Director Dr. Kevin Butterfield’s recent live stream interview with Dr. Jones-Rogers. It’s an illuminating look at an underexplored topic that were only just beginning to better understand. About Our Guest: Stephanie Jones-Rogers is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley where she specializes in African-American history, the history of American slavery, and women’s and gender history. She is the author of the book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019), which won the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic’s 2020 Best Book Prize and the Organization of American Historians’ 2020 Merle Curti Prize for the best book in American social history. She is also the first African-American and the third woman to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History since the award’s inception in 1980. A former faculty member at the University of Iowa, Jones-Rogers received her Ph.D. in African-American History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 2012. About Our Guest Host: Kevin C. Butterfield is the Executive Director of the Washington Library. He comes to Mount Vernon from the University of Oklahoma, where he served as the Director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage and Constitutional Studies Program, holding an appointment as the Wick Cary Professor and Associate Professor of Classics and Letters. He is the author of The Making of Tocqueville's America: Law and Association in the Early United States (Chicago, 2015). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountvernon/support

Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the winner of the 2013 Lerner-Scott Prize for best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women's history.

This week Alana Lentin joined us to discuss key themes within her new book, Why Race Still Matters. Useful links- http://www.alanalentin.net/ https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Why+Race+Still+Matters-p-9781509535712 Reading: J. Kincaid, Lucy K. Reid, Such a Fun Age D. McKinney-Whetstone, Tumbling M. Duneier & O. Carter, Sidewalk A. Whittaker, ‘So White, So What?’ https://meanjin.com.au/essays/so-white-so-what/ S.E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property Listening: John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain & Shankar Mahadevan, ‘Is That So?’ https://www.allmusic.com/album/is-that-so-mw0003322313 Hardrive, Deep Inside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zqyv-RZMqk Time To Talk With Alex Reads, Alex Reads https://open.spotify.com/show/4mDTIvqA2SMTrYziYEoJ2Z Curtain, the podcast, Amy McQuire & Martin Hodgson https://curtainthepodcast.wordpress.com/about/ *Please note season 9 is recorded entirely via video call during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Hosts Chantelle and Tissot and executive producer George pride themselves on ensuring a comfortable and encouraging recording atmosphere but this is clearly difficult to suffice remotely. Bear with us on this*

This week Alana Lentin joined us to discuss key themes within her new book, Why Race Still Matters. Useful links- http://www.alanalentin.net/ https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Why+Race+Still+Matters-p-9781509535712 Reading: J. Kincaid, Lucy K. Reid, Such a Fun Age D. McKinney-Whetstone, Tumbling M. Duneier & O. Carter, Sidewalk A. Whittaker, ‘So White, So What?' https://meanjin.com.au/essays/so-white-so-what/ S.E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property Listening: John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain & Shankar Mahadevan, ‘Is That So?' https://www.allmusic.com/album/is-that-so-mw0003322313 Hardrive, Deep Inside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zqyv-RZMqk Time To Talk With Alex Reads, Alex Reads https://open.spotify.com/show/4mDTIvqA2SMTrYziYEoJ2Z Curtain, the podcast, Amy McQuire & Martin Hodgson https://curtainthepodcast.wordpress.com/about/ *Please note season 9 is recorded entirely via video call during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic. Hosts Chantelle and Tissot and executive producer George pride themselves on ensuring a comfortable and encouraging recording atmosphere but this is clearly difficult to suffice remotely. Bear with us on this*

This week on our website, we unlocked an essay that appears in our new Summer issue: “The Patriot Slave,” written by University of Virginia law professor Farah Peterson. In it, she explores the ways in which we’re still haunted by the dangerous myth that African Americans chose not to be free in revolutionary America. Peterson will be joining us for an interview next week to talk about her essay and the recent Black Lives Matter protests. In preparation, let’s revisit this episode from last year, in which the historian Stephanie Jones-Rogers revises another dangerous myth—namely that wealthy white women in the South were separated from the ugly reality of slavery both by their own disenfranchisement and their intrinsic sweet nature. Since women often inherited more slaves than land, they were deeply invested, in a social, moral, and economic sense, in the trade of enslaved people. A white woman could cordon off her property from her husband’s in a prenuptial agreement, preserve her right to manage her own property, and fend off her husband’s debtors in court. She also ensured the continued reproduction of the institution by engaging in the market for wet nurses who were often coerced into serendipitous pregnancies through sexual violence, and whose breast milk was then used to nurse white children. How does the power of women slave owners change our understanding of the relationship among gender, slavery, and capitalism in the 19th century? Why were these relationships obscured for so long?Go beyond the episode:Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’s They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American SouthRead Farah Peterson’s essay, “The Patriot Slave” about the dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary AmericaRead the interviews with formerly enslaved people collected by the WPA, in the Library of Congress’s thorough online archiveAnd explore the complicated relationship that historians have had with these testimoniesTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot]... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on our website, we unlocked an essay that appears in our new Summer issue: “The Patriot Slave,” written by University of Virginia law professor Farah Peterson. In it, she explores the ways in which we’re still haunted by the dangerous myth that African Americans chose not to be free in revolutionary America. Peterson will be joining us for an interview next week to talk about her essay and the recent Black Lives Matter protests. In preparation, let’s revisit this episode from last year, in which the historian Stephanie Jones-Rogers revises another dangerous myth—namely that wealthy white women in the South were separated from the ugly reality of slavery both by their own disenfranchisement and their intrinsic sweet nature. Since women often inherited more slaves than land, they were deeply invested, in a social, moral, and economic sense, in the trade of enslaved people. A white woman could cordon off her property from her husband’s in a prenuptial agreement, preserve her right to manage her own property, and fend off her husband’s debtors in court. She also ensured the continued reproduction of the institution by engaging in the market for wet nurses who were often coerced into serendipitous pregnancies through sexual violence, and whose breast milk was then used to nurse white children. How does the power of women slave owners change our understanding of the relationship among gender, slavery, and capitalism in the 19th century? Why were these relationships obscured for so long?Go beyond the episode:Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’s They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American SouthRead Farah Peterson’s essay, “The Patriot Slave” about the dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary AmericaRead the interviews with formerly enslaved people collected by the WPA, in the Library of Congress’s thorough online archiveAnd explore the complicated relationship that historians have had with these testimoniesTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot]...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the world reacts to the Black Lives Matter movement. we discuss how emotional management can help white people handle white fragility and why families should stop the cycle of raising colorblind children.We provide additional resources for our listeners to read, watch, and listen to for themselves and their children.Articles for Therapists, Teachers, and ParentsAn Invitation to White TherapistsSpecific, Candid, and Helpful Responses to Expressions of Racism and BiasMy White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be HonestAs a Black Mother, My Parenting Is Always PoliticalDear White Parents, My Black Son and Husband Need You Right NowWhite Kids Need to Start Using Their Privilege for Good — Here’s How to Teach Them9 Phrases Allies Can Say When Called Out Instead of Getting DefensiveBeyond Blackout Tuesday: Starting Your Lifelong Anti-Racism JourneySuggested ReadingWhite Fragility, by Robin DiAngeloSo You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma OluoWaking Up White, by Debby Irving How To Be Less Stupid About Race, by Crystal M. Donaldson How To Be An Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. KendiAntagonists, Advocates, and Allies by Catrice M JacksonMe and White Supremacy by Layla F. SaadThey Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, PhDI’m Still Here by Austin Channing Social Media To FollowAlly Henny's Facebook PageRachel Cargle's Instagram PageWaste Free Marie's Instagram PagePodcasts By Black Mothers Articles by Black Bloggers To Support5 Movies To Watch On Netflix In June 2020 Starring Black LeadsBlack YouTube Family Vloggers DO Exist!3 TV Moments That Perfectly Portray “The Talk” For Black FamiliesTeach Your Child to Be An Advocate For Change

In this episode we are talking White Supremacy in American Studies: Cedric Essi (https://www.lili.uni-osnabrueck.de/institut_fuer_anglistikamerikanistik/lehre/lehrende/mitarbeiterdetails.html) and Samira Spatzek (http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/lehrpersonal/spatzek.aspx) are discussing the newest issue of COPAS – Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, which features the work of early career scholars, this time on Whiteness and White Supremacy.Works Cited and RecommendedThe special issue White Supremacy in the USA, with articles by Axelle Germanaz, Cord-Heinrich Plinke, Nele Sawallisch, Rahab Njeri, Mariya Dimitrova Nikolova andTill Kadritzke is now available under www.copas.uni-regensburg.de Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New Press, 2012.Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. Bloomsbury, 2016.Applebaum, Barbara. “Critical Whiteness Studies.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, Oxford UP, 2016, pp. 1-25. Arghavan, Mahmoud, Nicole Hirschfelder, and Katharina Motyl. “Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? Facing Problems of Race, Racism, and Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany: A Survey of the Issues at Stake.” Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? Facing Problems of Race, Racism, and Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany. Transcript, 2019, pp. 9-42.Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Anchor Books, 2008. Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.Broeck, Sabine. White Amnesia – Black Memory? Women's Writing and History. Lang, 1999.Bruce-Jones, Eddie. Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe. Routledge, 2017.De Lillo, Don. Zero K. Scribner, 2016 Deloria, Philip J. Playing Indian. Yale UP, 1998.DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility. Penguin Random House, 2018.Easy Rider. Dir. Dennis Hopper, Pando, 1969.Haney-López, Ian. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. New York UP, 1996.Harris, Cheryl I. “Whiteness as Property.” Harvard Law Review, vol. 106, no. 8, 1993, pp. 1707-91.hooks, bell. “Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination.”1992. Displacing Whiteness. Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism. Duke UP, 1997, pp 165–179.Ignatiev, Noel. How the Irish Became White. Routledge, 1995.Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property. White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. Yale UP, 2019.Kuppan, Viji. “Crippin’ Blackness: Narratives of Disabled People of Color from Slavery to Trump.” The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicity Racial Violence. Zed Books, 2018, pp. 60-73.McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie. Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy. Oxford UP, 2018. Mills, Charles W. The Racial Contract. Cornell UP, 1997.Mitchell, David, and Sharon Snyder. “The Eugenic Atlantic: Race, Disability, and the Making of an International Eugenic Science, 1800-1945.” Disability and Society, vol. 18, no. 7, 2003, pp. 843-64.Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Harvard UP, 1992.Paul, Heike. Kulturkontakt und Racial Presences: Afro-Amerikaner und die

A look at an article that reveals that 40% of ADOS were own by Caucasian women back in Slavery Let the Chaos Reign!!!!! ARTICLES TO look into https://atlantablackstar.com/2019/05/25/research-by-black-female-professor-reveals-startling-truth-that-white-women-made-up-40-of-slaveowners/ Her Book as well to get They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers https://www.amazon.com/They-Were-Her-Property-American/dp/0300218664/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Stephanie+E.+Jones-Rogers&qid=1560444674&s=books&sr=1-1 Support The Channel Cash App $Chaos8Reign Follow Me On Twitter Twitter/@ChaosReign7

On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina, June, Marcia, and Nichole discuss the recent drama about whether Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren that a woman can’t be president. Then, the panel adds to the chronic (but desired) over-coverage of Megxit. Finally, the panel discuss Women on Food, an anthology edited by Charlotte Druckman.    In Slate Plus: Is it sexist for a listener’s parents to say she spends too much time on her son’s hair each morning? Recommendations June: Michael Apted’s “Up” documentary series. The latest and final installment is 63 Up, in theaters now. Nichole: Darynda Jones’s Charley Davidson series.  Marcia: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’ book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. Christina: The Showtime series Work in Progress. This podcast was produced by Lindsey Kratochwill. Production assistance by Rachael Allen and Rosemary Belson. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina, June, Marcia, and Nichole discuss the recent drama about whether Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren that a woman can’t be president. Then, the panel adds to the chronic (but desired) over-coverage of Megxit. Finally, the panel discuss Women on Food, an anthology edited by Charlotte Druckman.    In Slate Plus: Is it sexist for a listener’s parents to say she spends too much time on her son’s hair each morning? Recommendations June: Michael Apted’s “Up” documentary series. The latest and final installment is 63 Up, in theaters now. Nichole: Darynda Jones’s Charley Davidson series.  Marcia: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’ book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. Christina: The Showtime series Work in Progress. This podcast was produced by Lindsey Kratochwill. Production assistance by Rachael Allen and Rosemary Belson. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com. And please call in with your “Is It Sexist” questions at (973) 826-0318‬. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bara den som sitter i isoleringscell dygnet runt är helt förhindrad att göra ont. Lars Hermansson läser en bok om kvinnliga slavägare och efterlyser fler nyanser i vår berättelse om ondska. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna Att ondskan är en man i en patriarkal världsordning comes as no surprise, kunde man travestera den amerikanska konstnären Jenny Holzers patenterade truism Abuse of power comes as no surprise. Men maktmissbruk är förstås inte uteslutande en manlig defekt. Det saknas inte grymma kvinnor i historien, från Herodias som krävde Johannes Döparens huvud på ett fat till den ökända tyska fångvaktaren i bland annat Bergen Belsen, Irma Grese, som gärna piskade ihjäl sina offer. Jag ogillar verkligen kålsuparteorier som vill relativisera maktmissbruk genom att påtala att inte heller offret var en ängel. Men idealisering av utsatta grupper är lika illa. För att värna gruppens renhet väljer somliga att hymla med att en och annan medlem av den egna gruppen faktiskt inte är helt tadelfri. En strategi som poeten Athena Farrokhzad gav uttryck för i sin recension av den danske poeten Yahya Hassans debutdiktsamling i Aftonbladet när hajpen kring boken var som störst. Hassan beskriver i boken bland annat hur han och hans syskon misshandlas av deras far, som är muslim med ursprung i mellanöstern, en berättelse som Dansk Folkeparti säkert älskade menar Farrokhzad i sin recension. Och sammanfattar att det står var och en fritt att välja strategi, men att hon för sin del aldrig skulle skriva om, citat en förövare som ser ut som jag, det vill säga är mörkhårig och skulle kunna ha sitt ursprung i mellanöstern, antar jag att hon menar. För inte var väl genus en parameter i sammanhanget? Jag tror Farrokhzad har rätt i att danska rasister gillade att Hassan skrev om sin våldsamme muslimske far, eftersom det bekräftade deras världsbild, men jag tvivlar på att boken värvade några nya rasister, jag tror inte bra poesi kan göra det, inte dålig poesi heller, såvida den inte förvandlas till statspropaganda. Däremot tror jag att den sorts strategispel Farrokhzad förordar göder de fördomar högerpopulismens framgångar vilar på. Jag vägrar sluta tro att alla tjänar på öppenhet i längden, och att folk faktiskt kan tänka själva. Att vara ett subjekt, att ha, som det heter, agens, det vill säga makt att agera, inte bara reagera, måste även inkludera möjligheten att göra ont. Jag tänker på det när jag läser den amerikanska historikern Stephanie Jones-Rogers They were her property om kvinnliga slavägare i den amerikanska södern. I bokens inledning redogör hon för det fördomsfulla forskningsläget genom att berätta om ett resereportage från sydstaterna publicerat i New York Tribune 1859, där reportern James Redpath försöker förklara det starka stödet för slaveriet hos söderns vita kvinnor, med att de, bundna som de var vid hemmets härd, aldrig hade bevittnat slaveriets mer motbjudande drag, aldrig närvarat vid auktioner, inte sett hur svarta slavar piskades ute på bomullsfälten. Det är, menar Jones-Rogers, en patriarkal förminskning av kvinnor Redpath ägnar sig åt här, och som historiker, kvinnor som män, fört vidare ända till ända fram till idag, naturligtvis med undantag som Jones-Rogers redogör för. Genom att lyssna till slavarnas egna utsagor i det så kallade Federal Writers Project, före detta slavars berättelser nedskrivna mellan 1936 och 1938 på regeringen Roosevelts initiativ, snarare än till förhärskande föreställningar om kvinnors milda sinnelag, genom att studera lagstiftning och dokument, helt enkelt bedriva forskning, framkallar Jones Rogers en annan bild av den vita slavägande kvinnan i den amerikanska södern. En kvinna som själv håller i piskan, och som med beslutsamhet och sinne för business köper och säljer sin egendom på slavauktionerna. Detta hade bland annat, visar Jones-Rogers, att göra med arvslagstiftningen. Enligt förstfödslorätten, som avskaffades i USA först på 1780-talet, kunde inte kvinnor ärva mark. Så för att inte göra dem helt lottlösa testamenterade föräldrarna ofta sina slavar till dem, eller skrev över dem på dem som vi skulle säga idag, när de giftes bort. Jones-Rogers spårar i denna arvsordning en makt- och arbetsdelning. Männen hanterade marken och dess gröda, kvinnorna hemmet och slavarna. Tidigare forskning har uppmärksammat den avvikande kvinnan, änkan eller den ogifta slavägaren, men Jones-Rogers menar alltså att även gifta kvinnor hade agens när gällde slavhanteringen, många av dem var aktiva såväl i misshandeln som utfordringen av arbetskraften, naturligtvis olika mycket beroende på de unika omständigheterna. En speciell avdelning i maktutövningen var tituleringen av slavägarnas barn. Den slav som glömde att säga Master eller Missis före barnets egennamn straffades ofta hårt. Rebecca Jane Grant glömde en gång att titulera en fyraårig pojke Master Henry, och piskades med en för ändamålet nyköpt piska och sattes sedan i stupstock där hennes matmor bröt flera av hennes ben. Säkert hörde just denna slavägare till de grymmare, men exemplen i boken är tillräckligt många för att eventuella fördomar om att kvinnor inte är förmögna till sadistiskt våld ska upplösas som troll i solsken. Det går verkligen att diskutera begreppet agens, vem har det, och vem har det inte? Bara gud, om hen funnes, och kanske stormrika psykopater i laglösa länder, har väl absolut agens. Alla vi andra är bundna av någonting. Lagar, förordningar, normer, hänsynstaganden, det egna känslolivet. Men handlingsutrymmet, som kanske är ett bättre ord än agens, varierar förstås enormt. Bara den som sitter i isoleringscell dygnet runt är helt förhindrad att göra ont. Vilket bland andra den italienska författaren Primo Levi vittnat om i sin självbiografiska skildring från utrotningslägret i Auschwitz, "Om detta är en människa" även i Auschwitz fanns fångar som brast i solidaritet med sina olycksbröder och systrar, och skodde sig på det som fanns att sko sig på. Är Jones-Rogers studie av kvinnliga slavägare i den amerikanska södern kontraproduktiv för den feministiska kampen? Behöver vi inte veta att även kvinnor kan vara förövare? Jag tror det är precis det vi behöver. Nyansering, gråskalor, motsatsen till demonisering och den lynchjustis som ibland följer i dennas spår. Makt, våld och ondska är inte utbytbara begrepp. Men våld är maktutövning, ondska (om begreppet ens är användbart) förutsätter något slags våld, om inte annat psykiskt sådant. Makt missbrukas dagligen och stundligen, av män såväl som kvinnor. Men just sexualiseringen av offret är kanske ändå en specifikt manlig defekt. I alla fall lyser sexuellt våld med sin frånvaro i Jones Rogers exempelkatalog. Fast kanske var 1930-talet, då merparten av Jones Rogers material samlades in, inte moget för den sortens berättelser. Lars Hermansson, författare och kritiker

Impeach the Mother F*cker already! That's what many Democrats are saying. Nancy Pelosi doesn't seem to be listening and that's just where we begin this week on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show as Trump continues to stonewall the House investigation, while Trump's number one nemesis and possible opponent in the 2020 run for President, Joe Biden, continues to surge in the polls…these stories and more when Halli and Halli's partner in politics veteran White House correspondent Matthew Cooper, and author of THEY WERE HER PROPERTY Stephanie Jones-Rogers join Halli on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, the podcast posted at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.In our first half-hour, Halli and Matt slice and dice the week's political news. Trump Inc. continues to defy subpoenas and in doing so, appears to want to push Democrats to impeachment. There are cracks in Trump's wall, small but there. Republican Representative Justin Amash dared to cross Trump and and called for Trump's impeachment. It got dirtier: Rep. Jerry Nadler accused Trump of “witness intimidation” and we're just beginning. What a show!In our second half-hour, drawing on the recorded recollections of formerly enslaved individuals, as well as on financial and legal documents, author Stephanie Jones-Rogers opens up a new conversation in the exhaustive study of slave-holding in the United States, myth-busting at its best. In THEY WERE HER PROPERTY, WHITE WOMEN AS SLAVE OWNERS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, Ms. Jones-Rogers presents an eye-opening, highly-detailed and vivid account that challenges assumptions about the role of white women in the buying, selling, managing, and hiring of enslaved people, prompting a rethinking of women's history and the history of slavery. You will be astonished!Impeach the Mother F*ucker. What is Nancy Pelosi up to? Does Jerry Nadler have what it takes to go nose to nose with Donald Trump and this week in anti-Semitism and a very special guest, Stephanie Jones-Rogersl talks her provocative new book THEY WERE HER PROPERTY…always insightful political conversation on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show the podcast posted at Halli Casser-Jayne dot com.

After hip hop icon Dr. Dre brutally assaulted trailblazing emcee and television personality Dee Barnes in 1991, his career continued to skyrocket while she was effectively blacklisted from the entertainment industry. Nearly three decades later, Dre, who has allegedly assaulted several other women in addition to Dee, continues to enjoy a celebrated career in which his heinous misdeeds have become mere footnotes. The combination of racism and patriarchy is the condition of possibility that allows Beats by Dre to be well-known commodities while beatings by Dre remain largely overlooked. As part of their fifth annual event series, Her Dream Deferred: A Week on the Status of Black Women, the African American Policy Forum, in partnership with the Hammer Museum, convened a panel called “Black Women and #MeToo”. Along with Dee, the panel included such leading lights as actor and Times Up WOC activist Rashida Jones, supermodel and Bill Cosby accuser Beverly Johnson, cultural critic Jamilah Lemieux, historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers and #MuteRKelly co-founder Kenyette Tisha Barnes. The panel was moderated by AAPF Executive Director and Intersectionality Matters host Kimberlé Crenshaw. The panel uplifted the unsung genealogy of the Me Too movement by acknowledging forerunners like Tarana Burke, who coined the hashtag #MeToo to raise awareness around the question of Black women’s vulnerability to sexual violence, and Anita Hill, who told the world her story about what a Supreme Court nominee had done to her as a young lawyer. Black feminists like bell hooks and Alice Walker were recognized also for laying bare the realities of gender-based violence that impacts Black women. Tune into this profound and pathbreaking episode of Intersectionality Matters for a thorough post-mortem on the powerful insights shared on the panel, as well as a look into what the movement’s path forward might look like. Hosted by Dee Barnes (@sistadbarnes) and Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) Produced and edited by Julia Sharpe Levine Recorded by the Hammer Museum Music by Blue Dot Sessions Featured panelists: Kenyette Barnes, Beverly Johnson, Rashida Jones, Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Jamilah Lemieux More on Her Dream Deferred: aapf.org/her-dream-deferred-initiative Intersectionality Matters: ig: @intersectionalitymatters, twitter: @IMKC_podcast Additional support from G'Ra Asim, Michael Kramer, Kevin Minofu, Naimah Hakim, Madeline Cameron-Wardleworth, UCLA School of Law

Holly was lucky enough to chat with historian Stephanie Jones-Rogers, author of “They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South,” which pieces together details that add new understanding of slavery in the U.S. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. In her new book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019) historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historians have long assumed that white women in the U.S. south benefited only indirectly from the ownership of enslaved people. Historians have neglected these women because their behavior didn’t conform to the picture we have of the patriarchal culture of the 18-19 century marriage. In an extraordinary new book, Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers shows that “slave owning women not only witnessed the most brutal features of slavery, they took part in them, they profited from them, and they defended them.” Prof. Jones-Rogers joins us today to talk about the narratives of formerly enslaved people, whose testimony changes the way we view those white women and the lives of the enslaved in the U.S.

Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. In her new book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019) historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Historians have long assumed that white women in the U.S. south benefited only indirectly from the ownership of enslaved people. Historians have neglected these women because their behavior didn’t conform to the picture we have of the patriarchal culture of the 18-19 century marriage. In an extraordinary new book, Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers shows that “slave […]

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. In her new book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019) historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. In her new book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019) historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. In her new book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019) historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding.

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. In her new book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019) historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. In her new book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019) historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave‑owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave‑owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers discusses her new book "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South," a book that dispels a common myth about the role of white women within the institution of slavery, as being one of reluctance and passivity. Previous scholarship has often depicted them as bystanders or even as allies to enslaved people; but in her new book, Jones-Rogers uncovers how white women in the antebellum south were actually adept slave owners and willing participants, reaping both economic and political gain from their involvement. FOLLOW STEPHANIE E. JONES-ROGERS PURCHASE "They Were Her Property..." book WANT MORE ELECTORETTE? Follow the Electoretteon social media: Electorette Facebook Electorette Instagram Electorette Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her explosive new book, They Were Her Property, historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers corrects the record about white women slave owners in the American South, proving that slavery and its associated markets were far from the sole domain of men. Since women often inherited more slaves than land, they were deeply invested, in a social, moral, and an economic sense, in the trade of enslaved people. A white woman could cordon off her property from her husband’s in a prenuptial agreement, preserve her right to manage her own property, and fend off her husband’s debtors in court. She also ensured the continued reproduction of the institution by engaging in the market for wet-nurses, who were often coerced into serendipitous pregnancies through sexual violence, and whose breast-milk was then used to nurse white children. How does the power of women slave owners change our understanding of the relationship among gender, slavery, and capitalism in the 19th century? Why were these relationships obscured for so long? Go beyond the episode:Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’s They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American SouthRead the interviews with formerly enslaved people collected by the WPA, in the Library of Congress’s thorough online archiveAnd explore the complicated relationship that historians have had with these testimoniesTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In her explosive new book, They Were Her Property, historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers corrects the record about white women slave owners in the American South, proving that slavery and its associated markets were far from the sole domain of men. Since women often inherited more slaves than land, they were deeply invested, in a social, moral, and an economic sense, in the trade of enslaved people. A white woman could cordon off her property from her husband’s in a prenuptial agreement, preserve her right to manage her own property, and fend off her husband’s debtors in court. She also ensured the continued reproduction of the institution by engaging in the market for wet-nurses, who were often coerced into serendipitous pregnancies through sexual violence, and whose breast-milk was then used to nurse white children. How does the power of women slave owners change our understanding of the relationship among gender, slavery, and capitalism in the 19th century? Why were these relationships obscured for so long? Go beyond the episode:Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’s They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American SouthRead the interviews with formerly enslaved people collected by the WPA, in the Library of Congress’s thorough online archiveAnd explore the complicated relationship that historians have had with these testimoniesTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.