Kenneth Marshall

Research

• slavery, emancipation, rural middle Atlantic
• race, black manhood
• black migration

Publications

• “Squaring for a Fight in the Early Republic: Silvia Dubois, a Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom,” in The Gendered Republic:  Reimagining Identity in the New Nation, ed. Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2025), 95-118.
• “‘Ready to Die’: The Notorious Cuff, a Resistant Enslaved (Akan) Male in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey,” Journal of American Ethnic History, v. 42, no. 4 (Summer 2023): 83-115.
• “Tough, Rugged, and Evolving Masculinity: Harry Compton, an Enslaved and Free Black Man in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey,” New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v. 7, n. 2 (Winter 2021): 107-44.
• “‘I Belong to No Man’: Self-Possession through Mobility in Silvia Dubois, a Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom,” Journal of African American History, v. 104, n. 4 (Fall 2019): 1-31.
• Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2011) (Gender and Race in American History).
• "Threat of a Bondman: Political Self-Fashioning and Christian Empowerment in the Memoir of Quamino Buccau, A Pious Methodist," Slavery and Abolition, v. 29, n. 3 (September 2008): 361-388.
• "'His Disposition Was Not in Any Sense Agreeable': The Making of an Eighteenth-Century Malcontent Northern Slave, 'Old Yombo,'" Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora, v. 3, n. 1 (Spring 2005): 1-25.
• "Powerful and Righteous: The Transatlantic Survival and Cultural Resistance of an Enslaved African Family in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey," Journal of American Ethnic History, v. 23, n. 2 (Winter 2004): 23-49.
• "Work, Family and Day-to-Day Survival on an Old Farm: Nance Melick, a Rural Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Slave Woman," Slavery and Abolition, v. 19, n. 3 (December, 1998): 22-45.

Education

• Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2003
• MA, Michigan State University, 1995
• BA, Rider University, 1991

Classes taught

• U.S. to 1865
• U.S. Since 1865
• American History Seminar (Resistance in African-American History)
• African-American History/Cinema (Blaxploitation Film)
• Black Manhood in Modern America
• The Black Power Movement
• Segregation to Civil Rights
• Slavery in America