Missing Women in Antebellum America 1830-1865

Hannah Ezer

Reading List

  • Freedom on the Move has digitized a large number of runaway advertisements with transcripts and images from dozens of states’ newspapers within the US, and can be accessed here: https://app.freedomonthemove.org/
  • Lori D. Patton and LaWanda W. Ward, ‘Missing Black Undergraduate Women and the Politics of Disposability: A Critical Race Feminist Perspective,’ The Journal of Negro Education (2016) available on JStor
  • Zach Sommers, ‘Missing White Woman Syndrome: An Empirical Analysis of Race and Gender Disparities in Online News Coverage of Missing Persons,’ Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (2016) 
  • Kirsten Sword, Wives Not Slaves: Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolution. Chicago, 2021.
  • Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, ‘Visible Bodies: Power, Subordination and Identity in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World,’ The Journal of Social History (2005) available on JStor

You should be able to gain free access to the books and articles listed above through your school or local county library service.