By Jared Ross Hardesty Some of the most common questions I receive after giving a talk about my book or a workshop about slavery in New England concern research. Where do you start? What types of sources are available? How accessible are those sources? In this post, I hope to clarify some of these questions … Continue reading Researching Slavery and Black Life in Early New England: An Introduction
Author: Jared Ross Hardesty
Jared Ross Hardesty is associate professor of history at Western Washington University and a scholar of colonial America, the Atlantic world, and the histories of labor and slavery. He is the author of "Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston" (New York: NYU Press, 2016) and "Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England" (Amherst & Boston: Bright Leaf, 2019). His current research project examines the murder of an eighteenth-century slave trader, smuggler, and chocolatier and is entitled "Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Smuggling, Slavery, and Chocolate."