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Kitchen Table History

Jessica Marie Johnson

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    Historian of slavery. Author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy and Freedom in the Atlantic World (@PennPress, 2020); Co-Editor of Computational Humanities (University of Minn Press, 2024)

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