Emily Blanck

Biographic Data

ID1056237
NAMEEmily Blanck
GIVEN NAMESEmily
FAMILY NAMEBlanck
SIGNATUREBLANCK E
AFFILIATIONSRowan University
ORCID0000-0003-2681-1824
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • Galveston on San Francisco Bay: Juneteenth in the Fillmore District, 1945-2016

    Open AccessEmily BlanckARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2019Cited by: 1

    This article explores the history of Juneteenth—the commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas—in San Francisco, California. In 1945, Wesley Johnson, a Texan migrant, introduced Juneteenth to San Francisco’s Black community. The celebration sustained itself over seventy years, making it the longest continuous urban celebration of Juneteenth. Juneteenth remained relevant in San Francisco because it became intertwined with the hi…

  • Jared Ross Hardesty. Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston

    Emily BlanckARTICLEThe American Historical Review2017

    In popular and, frequently, academic history, emancipation and freedom are depicted as a finish line, a bright and clear line of transcendence and victory. Recent scholarship has begun to emphasize the many levels of dependence and “unfreedom” that most people had, beyond just slaves and indentured servants. Reminding us that early modern American society was a world of hierarchy, these historians break down the exceptionality of American freedom…

  • Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts

    Emily BlanckARTICLEJournal of American History2015Cited by: 4

    Journal Article Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts Get access Emily Blanck. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2014. xviii, 217 pp. $49.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 538–539, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav360 Published: 01 September 2015

  • Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts

    Emily Blanck, Paul Finkelman et al.BOOKTyrannicide2014

  • The Legal Emancipations of Leander and Caesar: Manumission and the Law in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts

    Emily BlanckARTICLESlavery and Abolition2007References: 8

    During the Revolutionary era, two slaves, one named Leander from South Carolina and another named Caesar from Massachusetts, legally verified their new free status after long battles to become free. These two cases expose some similarities in the slave systems of Massachusetts and South Carolina. However, they more strongly show deep differences in the legal status of slaves in the emerging nation. Caesar legally established his freedom by suing …

  • Seventeen Eighty-Three: The Turning Point in the Law of Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts

    Emily BlanckARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2002

    IN 1783, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts pronounced Quock Walker-and all other slaves in the commonwealth-free. In that stroke, the court transformed Massachusetts from the first colony to legalize slavery into the first state immediately to deny its citizenry the right to hold human property.' While that momentous event has been related and analyzed by historians for decades, two subsequent cases, also adjudicated by William Cushing'…

  • Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture

    Emily Blanck, William J MaharARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000Cited by: 5