Hard Histories Book Talks: Tony Perry and Jennie Williams

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Join Hard Histories at Hopkins for a conversation with historians and authors Tony Perry (UVA) and Jennie Williams (UC Santa Cruz). Perry's scholarship centers on how enslaved people in 19th-century Maryland interfaced with their broader environments–geological, meteorological, and otherwise–as they navigated bondage. Williams writes about the coastal slave trade from Baltimore to New Orleans in the antebellum period and the impacts of forced separation of families on the lives of enslaved people. Collectively, their work sheds light on the effects of enslavement in the Maryland area with which Johns Hopkins University must grapple.

Perry and Williams will be in conversation with Martha S. Jones, Hard Histories' project director. Their conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A.

This event will refer to the following three pieces, though it is not necessary for attendees to have read them to join the discussion.

• Perry, "In Bondage When Cold was King: The Frigid Terrain of Slavery in Antebellum Maryland," Slavery & Abolition, 2017 (Read online)
• Williams, "Trouble the Water: The Baltimore to New Orleans Coastwise Slave Trade, 1820-1860," Slavery & Abolition, 2020 (Read online)
• Williams, "JHU, too, must atone for its slavery connection," * Baltimore Sun*, Feb. 15, 2018 (Read online)

The editor and publisher of the journal Slavery & Abolition have very generously provided Perry and Williams' articles in that publication available via open-access for all readers until the end of April. Hard Histories very much appreciates the journal's support in this regard. The two articles will be free to access at the above links throughout the month.

Johns Hopkins affiliates can also locate the two Slavery & Abolition articles anytime in the Johns Hopkins library catalog.