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Barbara McCaskill

Barbara McCaskill

Barbara McCaskill is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, and Associate Academic Director, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Her books and published essays have focused on antebellum and postbellum slave narratives, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literary productions, and the literature of the African American freedom struggle. Her most recent book is Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (UGA Press, 2015). Forthcoming in June 2020 (UGA Press) is The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man, co-edited with Sidonia Serafini and with Rev. Paul Walker, pastor of Highgate Baptist Church (formerly Hope Chapel), Birmingham, UK.

Articles by this author

Womanhood, Religion, and Slavery: Dialogues from the Readex African American Newspapers Series

November 2020 (Volume 15, Issue 2)
Nineteenth-century African American newspapers attracted black writers, subscription agents, printers, and readers eager to imbibe news and opinions from their own heterogeneous, diverse communities. They considered the impact of American slavery on global trade and commerce and global appropriations of African American culture and ideas. They ranged from commercial publications...

Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford Pushes Back: The Politics of Antislavery in the Early Twentieth-Century Press

April 2020 (Volume 15, Issue 1)
In the late 1890s, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute’s principal and a former slave, was one of the most recognized black men on the planet. His agenda for enabling jobs and education for post-Reconstruction black southerners also assuaged many white Americans’ anxieties about black economic competition and political empowerment. Another...

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