Kimberly Welch
Biographic Data
| ID | 5746863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly Welch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly |
| FAMILY NAME | Welch |
| SIGNATURE | WELCH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell (review)
The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans
After Eugene Macarty’s death in 1846, his white distant heirs sued Eulalie Mandeville, Eugene’s partner of fifty years and a free woman of color, for approximately $155,000. This article follows the trial that ensued, Macarty et al. v. Mandeville , a Louisiana civil suit that lasted two years, spanned more than 350 pages of written testimony and evidence, involved some of New Orleans’s leading families, and concerned one of the largest fortunes h…
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III
Reviewed by: A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III Kimberly Welch (bio) A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War. By William G. Thomas III. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 432. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $25.00.) The Butlers, Bells, Mahoneys, Queens, and Shorters. Over the course of five g…
Ariela J. Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente, Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Arteries of capital: William Johnson and the practice of black moneylending in the antebellum U.S. South
This essay examines the world of black moneylenders in the pre-Civil War U.S. South and demonstrates that black Americans were essential arteries for capital, bound to their communities through complex relationships of debt and obligation. In particular, it reconstructs the lending practices of William T. Johnson, a former slave and free black barber in Natchez, Mississippi who, between 1835 and 1851, extended more than 250 loans totaling at leas…
William Johnson's Hypothesis: A Free Black Man and the Problem of Legal Knowledge in the Antebellum United States South
This essay uses the diary of free black barber and Natchez, Mississippi, businessman William T. Johnson as a means to explore the extent to which one black man in the antebellum U.S. South knew the law; how he came to know it; and what role he saw it play in his life and community. In recent years, scholars have paid increasing attention to black Americans' engagement with the legal system in the pre-Civil War U.S. South and have undermined the n…
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal status. And they often won. Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Wel…
Jonathan M. Bryant, Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship
On August 24, 1819, a Spanish slaver, the Antelope, set sail from Cuba for the African coast. In her hold and on her decks was space for 350 African slaves, provisions to keep the crew and captives alive, and goods to trade for human property, including 15,000 pounds of gunpowder and 25,000 silver Spanish dollars. This was not the Antelope’s maiden voyage. Over the previous four years, she had transported at least 961 slaves, making her Spanish o…
William Johnson's Hypothesis: A Free Black Man and the Problem of Legal Knowledge in the Antebellum United States South
This essay uses the diary of free black barber and Natchez, Mississippi, businessman William T. Johnson as a means to explore the extent to which one black man in the antebellum U.S. South knew the law; how he came to know it; and what role he saw it play in his life and community. In recent years, scholars have paid increasing attention to black Americans' engagement with the legal system in the pre-Civil War U.S. South and have undermined the n…
Jonathan M. Bryant, Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship
On August 24, 1819, a Spanish slaver, the Antelope, set sail from Cuba for the African coast. In her hold and on her decks was space for 350 African slaves, provisions to keep the crew and captives alive, and goods to trade for human property, including 15,000 pounds of gunpowder and 25,000 silver Spanish dollars. This was not the Antelope’s maiden voyage. Over the previous four years, she had transported at least 961 slaves, making her Spanish o…
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal status. And they often won. Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Wel…
William Johnson's Hypothesis: A Free Black Man and the Problem of Legal Knowledge in the Antebellum United States South
This essay uses the diary of free black barber and Natchez, Mississippi, businessman William T. Johnson as a means to explore the extent to which one black man in the antebellum U.S. South knew the law; how he came to know it; and what role he saw it play in his life and community. In recent years, scholars have paid increasing attention to black Americans' engagement with the legal system in the pre-Civil War U.S. South and have undermined the n…
Arteries of capital: William Johnson and the practice of black moneylending in the antebellum U.S. South
This essay examines the world of black moneylenders in the pre-Civil War U.S. South and demonstrates that black Americans were essential arteries for capital, bound to their communities through complex relationships of debt and obligation. In particular, it reconstructs the lending practices of William T. Johnson, a former slave and free black barber in Natchez, Mississippi who, between 1835 and 1851, extended more than 250 loans totaling at leas…
Ariela J. Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente, Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans
After Eugene Macarty’s death in 1846, his white distant heirs sued Eulalie Mandeville, Eugene’s partner of fifty years and a free woman of color, for approximately $155,000. This article follows the trial that ensued, Macarty et al. v. Mandeville , a Louisiana civil suit that lasted two years, spanned more than 350 pages of written testimony and evidence, involved some of New Orleans’s leading families, and concerned one of the largest fortunes h…
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III
Reviewed by: A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III Kimberly Welch (bio) A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War. By William G. Thomas III. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 432. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $25.00.) The Butlers, Bells, Mahoneys, Queens, and Shorters. Over the course of five g…
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell (review)
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Spanish Civil War (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · American History and Culture (2 works)