Rita Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3977854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scripps College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Trouble with Minna
In his exploration of an 1840 New Jersey Supreme Court case, Hendrik Hartog takes readers on a journey into the confusing, cruel, and contradictory legal world of how one, and, by implication, other northern states' gradual abolition laws perpetuated slavery even while slavery was in decline. As scholars have repeatedly stressed, gradual abolition laws freed no one. The children born after the passage of the law were “free” but remained the “serv…
Kodi A. Roberts. Voodoo and Power
In his provocative and interesting book Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881–1940, Kodi A. Roberts explores the meaning of African American culture through the lens of New Orleans Voodoo, a religion he believes was clearly an “African American cultural production” (5). His findings counter his and other scholars’ assumptions. First, he addresses the question of origins and discovers that scholars have not provided suffi…
Perfecting the Family
The Last Best Hope of Earth
Patriotism and Political Criticism
THE DISCOVERY IN THE 1980s of two unpublished documents written by Lemuel Haynes, the enigmatic black Revolutionary War soldier who became a prominent New England clergyman, sheds new light on late eighteenth-century black political thought.1 Ruth Bogin's finding of Haynes's ballad, The Battle of Lexington, and antislavery essay, Liberty Further Extended: Or Free thoughts on the illegality of Slave-keeping; Wherein those arguments that Are useed …
African Americans in the Early Republic, 1789-1831
Patriotism and Political Criticism
THE DISCOVERY IN THE 1980s of two unpublished documents written by Lemuel Haynes, the enigmatic black Revolutionary War soldier who became a prominent New England clergyman, sheds new light on late eighteenth-century black political thought.1 Ruth Bogin's finding of Haynes's ballad, The Battle of Lexington, and antislavery essay, Liberty Further Extended: Or Free thoughts on the illegality of Slave-keeping; Wherein those arguments that Are useed …
African Americans in the Early Republic, 1789-1831
The Last Best Hope of Earth
Perfecting the Family
Kodi A. Roberts. Voodoo and Power
In his provocative and interesting book Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881–1940, Kodi A. Roberts explores the meaning of African American culture through the lens of New Orleans Voodoo, a religion he believes was clearly an “African American cultural production” (5). His findings counter his and other scholars’ assumptions. First, he addresses the question of origins and discovers that scholars have not provided suffi…
The Trouble with Minna
In his exploration of an 1840 New Jersey Supreme Court case, Hendrik Hartog takes readers on a journey into the confusing, cruel, and contradictory legal world of how one, and, by implication, other northern states' gradual abolition laws perpetuated slavery even while slavery was in decline. As scholars have repeatedly stressed, gradual abolition laws freed no one. The children born after the passage of the law were “free” but remained the “serv…
History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works)