Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

White women were especially likely to be owners involved in transactions with enslaved women, where they were listed as owners in nearly 40% of transactions.

New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on businesses, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people.

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

White women have trafficked in Black women’s milk.

White women and the economy of slavery.

A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.

Human bondage was big business in the antebellum US, and men weren’t the only ones cashing in.

The shortage is a calamity—not a victory for breastfeeding.

Her memoirs contribute to the inaccurate post-Civil War memory of the Southern plantation.

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.

Enslaved wet nurses were a valued purchase in the antebellum South.