Beyond Slavery
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Slavery in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Scripture and Religious Law
Christianity, Religion of the Slaveholders and the Enslaved
Sexual Assault and Exploitation Under U.S. Slavery and Jim Crow
How Slavery Has Shaped Our Understandings of Marriage and Friendship
Slavery, Violence, and the State
Mia Bay
Mia Bay is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and the Co-Director of the Black Atlantic Seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. She is the author of several publications including The White Image in the Black Mind: African American Ideas about White People 1825-1930 (Oxford University Press, 2000). Her most recent published work is "'See Your Declaration Americans!!' Abolitionism, Americanism, and the Revolutionary Tradition in Free Black Politics", in Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal, Michel Kazin and Joseph McCartin, eds. (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). Currently, she is working on several projects, including a biography of anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells and a study of African-American views on Thomas Jefferson. Together with Farah Jasmin Griffin at Columbia University, Professor Bay is also leading a new scholarly collaboration entitled "Towards an Intellectual History of Black Women".