Beth Wilson

‘I Felt All This’ Cambridge Core - American Studies - ‘I Felt All This’

Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

I was lucky enough to work in the Department of American Studies at Nottingham for a year, and as Emily says, it is a dynamic and welcoming community providing students with a really important alternative to a history degree. Please sign this!

‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements This article examines formerly enslaved people’s use of Information Wanted advertisements to reconnect with lost family after the American Civil War. This article argues that physical reunification...

Over the next few weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes.

Today it's Katherine Burns, ‘‘She died from grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements’, Slavery & Abolition' bit.ly/3HDuOVZ 1/2

Of course!!

The book explores how enslaved people formed their own, gendered emotional frameworks to both refuse and survive the institution of slavery. It also considers how enslaved and formerly enslaved people spoke to different aspects of their emotional worlds in written, oral and visual testimony.

I'm incredibly excited to announce that I have signed a contract with CUP for my book, provisionally titled 'Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum South', which will hopefully be out next year!

Thanks David!

An exciting book delivery today!

It’s that time of the year again! Please do get your students to apply for our exciting (and fully funded 😱) Kinder-BrANCH MA in Atlantic History and Politics! 👇

Thankyou!

Thanks Teresa! So glad that it’s being published in book form - hopefully you’ll receive your copy soon!

So glad your article is in the collection, Hannah - such an important intervention. Fingers crossed you’ll receive your copy soon!

I'm discussing my work tomorrow at the RAI. Please join us!

Thanks, Erin! Hopefully your copy will be will you soon!

Thanks Katie!

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Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World This book explores the history of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of emotion. Combining methods from the history of emotions with those from slavery studies often for the first time, th...

Excited that our edited collection 'Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World' has been published today in book form by Routledge! Thanks to my co-editor Emily West and all the amazing contributors. www.routledge.com/Slavery-and-...

Come and join us at the AHRS tomorrow at 4pm!

Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965

Join AHRS tonight to hear Harvey G Cohen (KCL) speak about his work titled: 'Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965.' 4pm at the RAI. Details here: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/roll-a...

Looking forward to giving a paper at University of York next Wednesday - please join us!