新刊『トゥルー・ブルーで目覚めて：スミスフィールド・プランテーションの家族ちの奴隷制と自由』

In the True Blue's Wake: Slavery and Freedom Among the Families of Smithfield Plantation (American South). Daniel B. Thorp, University of Virginia Press, February 17, 2022

In 1759, William Preston purchased sixteen enslaved Africans brought to America abroad the True Blue, and English slave ship. Over the next century, the Preston family enslaved more than two hundred individuals and used their labor to establish and operate Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg, Virginia. Author uncovers the stories of the men and women who were enslaved at Smithfield, one of the first plantations west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, between its establishment in 1774 and the abolition of slavery there in 1865 and offers powerful biographies of their descendants after emancipation. （引用元）