Jesse Joseph Olsavsky

Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University

jesse.olsavsky@dukekunshan.edu.cn

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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

“Abolition Revolution”: Losurdo, Abolitionism, and the Critique of European Philosophy

Journal article International Critical Thought · February 9, 2026 Link to item Cite

"Of the Nature of a Revolution": Some New Works on the Era of Abolition

Journal article American Quarterly · June 15, 2025 Link to item Cite

Frederick Douglass and the Beginnings of Pan-Africanism, 1853–1918

Journal article International Journal of African Historical Studies · 2025 Link to item Cite

Runaway Slaves, Militant Abolitionists, and the Critique of American Prisons, 1830–60

Journal article History Workshop Journal · July 27, 2021 AbstractThis essay reveals the ways that runaways and abolitionists, through their critiques of American prisons in the decades prior to the American Civil War, collectively originated the ideas and practice ... Full text Cite

The Abolitionist Tradition in the Making of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Marxism and Anti-Imperialism

Journal article Socialism and Democracy · September 2, 2018 Full text Cite

Women, vigilance committees, and the rise of militant abolitionism, 1835–1859

Journal article Slavery & Abolition · April 3, 2018 Full text Cite