“Slavery at the Gendered Crossroads of the Revolutionary Era: First Ladies and their Bondspeople”

Brenda E. Stevenson

Stevenson, Brenda E. “Slavery at the Gendered Crossroads of the Revolutionary Era: First Ladies and their Bondspeople,” Reviews in American History vol. 47, no. 2 (June 2019):  189-197.


“Introduction:  Book Review Forum on Slavery”

Brenda E. Stevenson

Stevenson, Brenda E. “Introduction: Book Review Forum on Slavery,” Journal of African American History 103, no. 3 (Summer 2018): 420-440.


“Review of Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of monticello: An American Family

Brenda E. Stevenson
Stevenson, Brenda E. “Review of Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello: An American FamilyJournal of American History 98, no. 1 (June 2011): 154-155.


“Review of Annette Gordon-Reed’s Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy

Brenda E. Stevenson
Stevenson, Brenda E. “Review of Annette Gordon-Reed’s Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy” Washington Post Book World 27, no. 24 (June 15, 1997): 4-5.


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“Review of Nell Irvin Painter’s Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Brenda E. Stevenson
Stevenson, Brenda E. “Review of Nell Irvin Painter’s Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol,” Emerge Magazine 9, no. 1 (September 1996): 74-75.


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“Visions of Freedom: Reviews of Douglass Egerton’s Gabriel’s Rebellion and Winthrop Jordan’s Tumult and Silence at Second Creek

Brenda E. Stevenson

Stevenson, Brenda E. “Visions of Freedom: Reviews of Douglass Egerton’s Gabriel’s Rebellion and Winthrop Jordan’s Tumult and Silence at Second Creek,” Southern Exposure: A Journal of Politics and Culture 22, no. 2 (Summer 1994): 61-62.


“Review of T.O. Madden’s We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia: a 200-Year History

Brenda E. Stevenson
Stevenson, Brenda E. “Review of T.O. Madden’s We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpeper County, Virginia: a 200-Year HistoryJournal of Southern History 59, no. 4 (Nov. 1993): 742-743.


“Review of Adele Alexander’s Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879

Brenda E. Stevenson
Stevenson, Brenda E. “Review of Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879,Journal of Southern History 59, no. 2 (May 1993): 345-346.


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“Review of Victoria Bynum’s Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Conflict in the Old South

Brenda E. Stevenson
Stevenson, Brenda E. “Review of Victoria Bynum’s Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Conflict in the Old South,” Center for Research on Women Newsletter 11, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 6-7.


“Review of Jean Fagan Yellin’s Women and Sisters: The Anti-Slavery Feminists in American Culture

Brenda E. Stevenson
Stevenson, Brenda E. “Review of Jean Fagan Yellin’s Women and Sisters: The Anti-Slavery Feminists in American Culture,Journal of American History 77, no. 4 (March 1991): 1361-1362.


“Review of Ruth Polk Patterson’s The seed of sally Good’n: A Black Family of Arkansas, 1833-1953”

Brenda E. Stevenson
Stevenson, Brenda E. “Review of Ruth Polk Patterson’s The Seed of Sally Good’n: A Black Family of Arkansas, 1833-1953.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (1989): 107-109.


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“Review of Robert Engs’s Freedom’s First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia 1861-1890

Brenda E. Stevenson
Stevenson, Brenda E. “Review of Robert Engs’s Freedom’s First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia 1861-1890,Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 5, no. 2 (July 1981): 59-64.