Books
“Duane casts a revealing dual biography of James McCune Smith (1813–1865) and Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882) against the backdrop of early-19th-century debates over the future of black people in America… [She] eloquently describes the threats and obstacles black children faced in pursuit of their education…this erudite chronicle succeeds in lifting up two underappreciated figures of the antislavery movement.”
Publishers Weekly
“Was any literature written specifically for black children living before 1900 in the Western Hemisphere? By posing this question, Capshaw and Duane force a reckoning with a gap in children’s literature studies that is predicated on the assumption that slavery invalidated a space for black children to consume literature.”
V. A. Murrenus Pilmaier, University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan
Recent Articles and Chapters
Anna Mae Duane and Erica Meiners. “Working Analogies: Slavery Now and Then,” in Fighting Modern Slavery: History and Contemporary Policy Eds. Jessica Pliley and Genvieve LeBaron (New York: Cambridge UP, 2021) 56-72.
Anna Mae Duane. “The Long History of Child Saving as Nation Building in the USA: An Argument for Privileging Children’s Perspectives on Recovery.” In The Historical Roots of Human Trafficking, Eds. Makini Chisolm-Straker and Katherine Chon (New York: Springer, 2021) 217-231.
Anna Mae Duane. “The Price of Freedom: Racialized Female Desire in Early America” in The Cambridge Guide to Gender in American Literature eds. Jean Lutes and Jennifer Travis (New York: Cambridge UP, 2021): 23-36.
Anna Mae Duane. “’All Boys are Bound to Someone’”: Reimagining Freedom in the History of Child Slavery,” in Swanson, E., & Stewart, J. eds. Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018): 173-190.
Recent Public Humanities
James McCune Smith and Medicine’s Racist Legacy. Avidly.org July 1, 2020
UConn Today, June 3, 2020
Hiding in Plain Sight, Gotham Blog, January 28, 2020
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