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Jesse Joseph Olsavsky

Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Scholarly Works - Book sections


The Underground Railroad

Book section · March 2021 This volume offers both a comprehensive representation of Douglass and a series of concentrated studies of specific aspects of his work. ... Cite

Chapter 1

Book section · May 29, 2020 Commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois's birth, the chapters in this book reflect on the local, national, and international significance of his remarkable life and legacy in relation to his specific commitments to socialism ... ... Cite

"Runaway Slaves, Vigilance Committees, and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835-1863"

Book section · July 30, 2019 Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. ... Cite