Women & American Slavery w/ Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers' is a historian whose work has shed new light on the roles that women played in American slavery. In this episode, she joins Ben and Bob to share some of the significant findings of her work, the sources she's used to learn more about enslaved people and female slaveowners, and her new project, which reorients our understanding of the British Atlantic slave trade by centering the story on the lives of both free and captive women.
Dr. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is Associate Professor of History at the University California, Berkeley and the author of the award-winning book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019). She is also one of the recipients of the 2023 Dan David Prize, which recognizes outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history.
This episode was originally aired as episode #270 on April 24, 2023. This rebroadcast was edited by Ben Sawyer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. It's February, which is Black History Month, and to many of us, that still really matters. |
| 0:11.1 | So today we are sharing our conversation with Stephanie Jones-Rogers on her research on women and slavery. |
| 0:17.2 | We hope you enjoy it and continue to join us in celebrating the contributions that everyone made to this great country. Take care. |
| 0:27.1 | I'm Bob Crawford. I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the road to now. Ben, this is week two celebrating Dan David Prize winners, |
| 0:39.7 | 2023 Dan David Prize winners. |
| 0:42.1 | Again, the Dan David Prize gives an endowment of $300,000 to nine. |
| 0:49.1 | I guess this year they did nine different history scholars. |
| 0:53.0 | They gave $300,000 to continue their research. |
| 0:57.6 | Right. And history broadly defined because, you know, in the last episode, we spoke with |
| 1:01.7 | Anita Radini, who does the archaeology of dust. And Bob, I got to say, I'm already a huge |
| 1:07.6 | fan of this prize. I don't even win it. I'm just happy about it because the |
| 1:11.2 | prize itself, with the help of our friend Joe Diplasco, has brought to us two back-to-back |
| 1:17.2 | incredible scholars to have on the show today to talk about the history of women's lives |
| 1:23.3 | in the era of American slavery. Please welcome our guest, Dr. Stephanie Jones Rogers. |
| 1:28.5 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:29.7 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:31.3 | Dr. Rogers is the Chancellor's Professor of History |
| 1:34.5 | and Director of African and African American History Writers Workshop at UC Berkeley. |
| 1:40.5 | To start off, talk a little bit about your research and the questions that you ask in your |
| 1:45.5 | work. So thank you again for having me and I'm having this conversation with me. So my research |
| 1:51.9 | focuses on white women and their economic investments in relationships to the institution of |
| 1:58.1 | slavery. The first book that I've written, They Were Her Property, |
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