Ted Maris-Wolf
Associate Director, Charles Center W&M
PhD received:
2011
Dissertation Title:
Liberty, Bondage, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Free Black Expulsion Law and Self-Enslavement in Virginia, 1806–1864
MA received:
2002
Thesis Title:
Between Slavery and Freedom: African Americans in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1863
Awards, Fellowships and Publications
- received the Thatcher Prize for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Study from the College of William & Mary (2011)
- 2014 George & Ann Richards Prize for his article "'Of Blood and Treasure': Recaptive Africans & the Politics of Slave Trade Suppression" published in the Journal of the Civil War Era.
- Family Bonds: Free Blacks & Re-enslavement in Antebellum Virginia