The Pauli Murray Center's March 2022 book club discussion will be on the second half of They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (pages 101 through 205). The conversation will be facilitated by the author!

Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.

We will hold our discussion on Wednesday, April 27th from 6:30 to 7:30 PM (EST) on Zoom. To attend, please register in advance at bit.ly/PMCAPR22BOOK.