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Stephanie Camp

Stephanie Camp, Associate Professor; Dio Richardson Endowed Professor, African American; Women & Gender; Slavery; 19th century United States. Education, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1998. Selected Bibliography, Books: New Studies in the History of American Slavery, edited with Edward E. Baptist. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2006. Currently in its second printing. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South . Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Currently in its second printing. Research in Progress: I am working on a book, Black Beauty: A History, about the history of black and white American ideas regarding the physical beauty of black people. The books spans about four centuries, beginning with early modern European ideas about beauty, ugliness, difference and Africans and ending in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century efforts to establish, and transcend, a belief that “Black is Beautiful.”

  • Closer to Freedom

    December 08, 2012

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220792.Closer_to_Freedom Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South by Stephanie M.H. Camp…

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