Black Slaves, Indian Masters with Barbara Krauthamer

Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South with Barbara Krauthamer.

Bernice Bennett welcomes Barbara Krauthamer,  Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

She is the author of Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South.  She is co-author, with Deborah Willis (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University), of Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery.  Professor Krauthamer has also written many articles and book chapters on the subjects of: chattel slavery in Indian Territory, African American/Native American intersections, and African American women’s lives in slavery. 

In 2007, she received the Letitia Brown Memorial Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians.  She has also received awards and funding from: the National Endowment for the Humanities; Stanford University; Yale University; the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.