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  • Review: Brian Yothers, Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author
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  • “It was only the darkened house that could contain her”: Containing Forms in The Scarlet Letter
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Author Laura Gillespie

Laura Gillespie

Laura Gillespie is a researcher of race, power, and politics in the nineteenth-century United States. She recently completed a doctoral thesis entitled 'Contraband' Camps and the Development of African American Politics, 1860-1865. This study explores enslaved people's politicization, which had its roots in slavery, in the "contraband" or refugee camps that were established behind Union Army lines during the conflict.

Review: Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Laura Gillespie
Issue 11 2022, Reviews
Baumgartner, Alice L. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 2020. ISBN 9781541617773. $32. 365pp. In South to Freedom, Alice Baumgartner explores th... Read More...
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