
Jessica MillwardUniversity of California, Irvine | UCI · Department of History
Jessica Millward
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Black Digital Humanities in the hands of Black Feminist and Black Women’s Studies scholars enables historiography and open access pedagogy about Black liberation thinkers in the tradition of the Black Studies Movement.1 Furthermore it is a subversive model of archiving which produces a counter-narrative to traditional and canonical ways of thinking...
Discussing chattel slavery necessitates interrogating freedom. Freedom by definition is “the condition of being free or unrestricted; personal or civil liberty; absence of slave status; power of self-determination; quality of not being controlled by fate or necessity.”1 The scholars reviewed in this essay ask questions about freedom from the perspe...
This article investigates the relationship between manumission laws and enslaved women's bodies in Maryland, USA. The point of departure is the 1809 ‘Act to Ascertain and Declare the Condition of Such Issue as may hereafter be born of Negro or Mulatto Female Slaves,’ which minimized age requirements for freeing enslaved children. If the status of l...
As an undergraduate student in Professor Peggy Pascoe's course on women's history in spring 1994 at the University of Utah, I learned the foundational lesson that women are the architects of their own history and that we, as historians, have a responsibility to push the boundaries of what is acceptable and what is natural. As one of the only women...
"History is supposed to give people a sense of identity, a feeling for who they are, and how far they have come. It should act as a springboard for the future. One hopes that it will do this for Black women, who have been given more myth than history."
At the time of its initial publication in 1985, Ar'n't I a Woman? was among a small, though signi...
Jessica Millward The Slavery Reader. Edited by Gad Heuman and James Walvin. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. In this impressive volume on slavery in the New World, editors Gad Heuman and James Walvin present a formidable collection of previously published works which �were pioneering, reversionary, or remain, despite more recent critiques of t...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2003. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 278-306) and abstract. Photocopy.