Historian, Author, and Educator, Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson, speaks about her new book "Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence" (University of Pennsylvania Press) at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on February 6, 2020 in honor of Black History Month.

Carter Jackson is the Kanfel Assistant Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. She is also the 20192020 Newhouse Faculty Fellow for the Center of the Humanities at Wellesley College. Carter Jackson's research focuses on slavery and the abolitionists, violence as a political discourse, historical film, and black women’s history. She earned her B.A at her beloved Howard University and her Ph.D from Columbia University working with the esteemed historian Eric Foner.

"Force & Freedom" examines the conditions that led some black abolitionists to believe slavery might only be abolished by violent force. In Force and Freedom, Carter Jackson provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists. Force and Freedom was a finalist for the MAAH Stone Book Prize Award for 2019.