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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:

African American Studies March 24, 2022

Invisible Masters

Gender, Race, and the Economy of Service in Early New England

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 New England (Dartmouth College Press, 2018), rewrites the familiar narrative …
African American Studies May 21, 2021

Jamaica Ladies

Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire

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 the first systematic study of the free and freed women of …
African American Studies April 5, 2021

The Mark of Slavery

Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America

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 Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America …
African American Studies March 26, 2021

The Case of the Slave-Child, Med

Free Soil in Antislavery Boston

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 arrival in the …
African American Studies February 23, 2021

Women's War

Fighting and Surviving the Civil 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 women are outside of war, through a trio of dramatic …
African American Studies 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 British America …
African American Studies November 5, 2020

Bound In Wedlock

Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

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 treated with the same reverence …
African American Studies July 29, 2020

Voices of the Enslaved

Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana

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 History and Culture and the University of North Carolina …
African American Studies March 20, 2020

City of Refuge

Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856

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), Professor Marcus P. Nevius (Assistant Professor of …
African American Studies January 7, 2020

The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery

Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History

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 Washington Professor of English Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances …