Recent Publications - Dr. Gordon Barker
Recent Publications
My current work focuses on slavery, race relations, and black agency during the Revolutionary, Antebellum, and Civil War Eras.
Monographs
- Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution, Eight Cases, 1848-1856 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers, 2013).
- The Imperfect Revolution: Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2010).
Articles
- “Secession and Slavery as a Positive Good: The Impact of the Anthony Burns Drama in Boston on Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (2010) Volume 118, No. 2.
Reviews
- Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson edited by Leonard J. Sadosky, Peter Nicolaisen, Peter S. Onuf, and Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy, Journal of Southern History (2012) Volume 78, No. 1.
- Crusade Against Slavery: Edward Coles, Pioneer of Freedom by Kurt E. Leichtle and Bruce G. Carveth, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (2011), Volume 119, No.4.
