The African American Community in Brushy Fork, Illinois, 1818-1861
Dr. Charles R. Foy is Associate Professor, Emeritus, Early American & Atlantic History at Eastern Illinois University. His scholarship focuses on eighteenth century black maritime culture. Dr. Foy has published more than a dozen articles on black mariners and is the creator of the Black Mariner Database, a dataset of more than 29,000 eighteenth century black Atlantic mariners. He is completing a book manuscript, Liberty’s Labyrinth: Freedom in the 18th Century Black Atlantic, that details the nature of freedom in the eighteenth century through an analysis of the lives of black mariners.
Michael Bradley is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and has a Master of Arts degree from Eastern Illinois University in Early American & Atlantic History. His scholarship focuses on the long eighteenth century and the social history of convict transportation from Britain to America. Mr. Bradley has published an encyclopedia entry on the Black Atlantic, and is the creator of a dataset of more than 3,000 transported convicts who have been tracked from Britain to America and whose lives are under analysis for his forthcoming dissertation.
Charles R. Foy, Michael I. Bradley; The African American Community in Brushy Fork, Illinois, 1818-1861. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) 1 July 2019; 112 (2): 129–162. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jillistathistsoc.112.2.0129
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