Winner, 2021 AERA Outstanding Book AwardWinner, 2021 AERA Division F New Scholar's Book AwardWinner, 2020 Mary Kelley Book Prize, given by the Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicWinner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education SocietyUncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American...

Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of the development of proslavery and antisl...