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About Katrina Anderson

Katrina Anderson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware.

Katrina Anderson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware.

NBN Episodes hosted by Katrina:

African American Studies January 20, 2023

Escape to the City

Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South

Viola Franziska Müller

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
In Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South (UNC Press, 2022), Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston …
African American Studies January 19, 2023

Consent in the Presence of Force

Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans

Emily A. Owens

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually …
African American Studies January 1, 2023

Proving Pregnancy

Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America

Felicity M. Turner

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Felicity M. Turner's Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America (UNC …
African American Studies November 25, 2022

The Education of Betsey Stockton

An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

Gregory Nobles

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
The life of Betsey Stockton (ca. 1798–1865) is a remarkable story of a Black woman’s journey from slavery to emancipation, from antebellum New Jersey to the Hawai‘ian Islands, and from …
African American Studies November 15, 2022

Happy Dreams of Liberty

An American Family in Slavery and Freedom

R. Isabela Morales

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old white planter left behind hundreds of slaves, thousands of acres of rich cotton land …
African American Studies June 28, 2022

Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution

The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth

Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
Today I talked to Claire Bellerjeau about her book (co-authored with Tiffany Yecke Brooks) Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth (Lyons Press, 2021). In January 1785 …