Race relations

Tessa Murphy. The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean. Early American Studies Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 320 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps. $45.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8122-9997-7; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5338-2.

Reviewed by Eric Walls (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Atlantic (May, 2023) Commissioned by W. Douglas Catterall (Cameron University of Oklahoma)

David Silkenat. Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 261 pp. $29.80 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-756422-6. 

Reviewed by Nicholas Cox Published on H-CivWar (May, 2023) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)

Caroline Grego. Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Illustrations, tables. 312 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-7135-2. 

Miriam Thaggert. Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. Illustrations. 208 pp.

Orville Vernon Burton, Peter Eisenstadt, eds. Lincoln’s Unfinished Work: The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022. vi + 435 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7676-4. 

Travis Hay. Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2021. 208 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-88755-934-1; $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-88755-940-2. 

Kathryn Meyer McAllister Olivarius. Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. 336 pp. $27.87 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24105-3. 

Steven High. Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. 440 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01075-3. 

William Alan Blair. The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction (Civil War America). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 184 pp.