Maria R. Montalvo
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University
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I am an assistant professor of history at Emory University and a historian of slavery, capitalism, and the law in the nineteenth-century United States. My research interests center on the lived experiences of enslaved individuals as well as the everyday business of slavery and its lingering archival consequences. My current book project, tentatively titled “The Archive of the Enslaved: Power, Enslavement, and the Production of the Past,” is a legal history of slavery and capitalism that builds on my analysis of thousands of court records from antebellum New Orleans to explore the legal, rhetorical, and archival strategies enslavers employed to exploit, historicize, and commodify enslaved individuals.

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I am an assistant professor of history at Emory University and a historian of slavery, capitalism, and the law in the nineteenth-century United States. My research interests center on the lived experiences of enslaved individuals as well as the everyday business of slavery and its lingering archival consequences. My current book project, tentatively titled “The Archive of the Enslaved: Power, Enslavement, and the Production of the Past,” is a legal history of slavery and capitalism that builds on my analysis of thousands of court records from antebellum New Orleans to explore the legal, rhetorical, and archival strategies enslavers employed to exploit, historicize, and commodify enslaved individuals.

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