Anne Twitty
Jul 23, 2019Before Dred Scott
Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857
Cambridge University Press 2016

Derek Litvak is a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland—College Park. His dissertation, "The Specter of Black Citizens: Race, Slavery, and Citizenship in the Early United States," examines how citizenship was used to both bolster the institution of slavery and exclude Black Americans from the body politic.