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Happy Dreams of Liberty
An American Family in Slavery and Freedom A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow
Forthcoming from Oxford University Press
May 2, 2022 Pre-order on Amazon.com Pre-order from Oxford University Press |
About the Author
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R. Isabela Morales is a public historian based in New Jersey. She is the Editor and Project Manager of Princeton University's expansive public history initiative, The Princeton & Slavery Project; her research for the project has been featured in The New York Times. She currently works at the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum, central New Jersey's first Black history museum.
Dr. Morales received her Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 2019, specializing in the 19th-century United States, slavery, and emancipation. She completed an M.A. in history from Princeton in 2014 and a B.A. in history and American Studies from The University of Alabama in 2012. She is committed to making historical research accessible to diverse audiences, and has lectured widely on slavery and American history at conferences and community events. |
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