Kimberly Welch
Jul 18, 2019Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
University of North Carolina Press 2018

Derek Litvak is a Ph.D. student in the department of history at the University of Maryland.
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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.