Stephanie M. H. Camp is associate professor of history at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantations South and coauthor of New Studies in the History of American Slavery.
Recent scholarship has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and...[SEE MORE]