About Jerrad Pacatte

Jerrad P. Pacatte is a doctoral candidate and School of Arts and Sciences Excellence Fellow in the Department of History at Rutgers.

NBN Episodes hosted by Jerrad:

Elisabeth Ceppi, "Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England" (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)

March 24, 2022

Invisible Masters

Elisabeth Ceppi
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte

Early American literature scholar Elisabeth Ceppi’s thought-provoking new book, Invisible Masters: Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early N…

Christine Walker, "Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire" (UNC Press, 2020)

May 21, 2021

Jamaica Ladies

Christine Walker
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte

Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire (Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press, 2020) is th…

Jenifer L. Barclay, "The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

April 5, 2021

The Mark of Slavery

Jenifer L. Barclay
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte

Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. In The M…

Karen Woods Weierman, "The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston" (U Massachusetts Press, 2019)

March 26, 2021

The Case of the Slave-Child, Med

Karen Woods Weierman
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte

In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl named Med was brought to Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property. Learning of the girl's…

Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)

February 23, 2021

Women's War

Stephanie Mccurry
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte

In Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War (Harvard UP, 2019), the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning challenges the idea that wo…

Trevor Burnard, "Jamaica in the Age of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

January 4, 2021

Jamaica in the Age of Revolution

Trevor Burnard
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte

Between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in…

Tera W. Hunter, "Bound In Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" (Harvard UP, 2017)

November 5, 2020

Bound In Wedlock

Tera W. Hunter
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte

Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been …

Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2019)

July 29, 2020

Voices of the Enslaved

Sophie White
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte

In her prize-winning study Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Colonial Louisiana (Omohundro Institute of Early American Histor…

Marcus P. Nevius, "City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856" (U Georgia Press, 2020)

March 20, 2020

City of Refuge

Marcus P. Nevius
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte

In his newly released book City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 (University of Georgia Press, 2020), Profe…

Alys Eve Weinbaum, "The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History" (Duke UP, 2019)

January 7, 2020

The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery

Alys Eve Weinbaum
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte

In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History (Duke University Press, 2019), University of Washin…