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Justin Leroy

Justin Leroy

Assistant Professor of History
History
justin.leroy@duke.edu
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708
114 Campus Drive, 226 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Office hours

Selected Publications

The Lowest Freedom Racial Capitalism and Black Thought in the Nineteenth Century

Book · April 21, 2026 The Lowest Freedom is an intellectual history of how economic dispossession shaped the meaning of freedom in Black thought from antebellum abolitionism to the rise of Jim Crow. ... Cite

Bonded Life

Journal Article Cultural Studies · September 3, 2015 Full text Link to item Cite