Tamika Nunley

Journal Article Journal of Women S History · January 1, 2024 This article examines the life and work of Phillis Wheatley and her interlocutors to consider how African-descended people conceptualized liberty and formed an intellectual community during the American Revolution. Her poetry and epistolary exchanges, shar ... Full text Cite

The Demands of Justice Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia

Book · March 9, 2023 Award-winning historian Tamika Y. Nunley has unearthed the stories of enslaved Black women charged by their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, infanticide, and arson. ... Cite

Thavolia Glymph Roundtable

Journal Article Civil War History · March 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Slavery and the Political Touchstones of a Young Republic

Journal Article William and Mary Quarterly · January 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Thrice condemned: Enslaved women, violence, and the practice of leniency in antebellum virginia courts

Journal Article Journal of Southern History · February 1, 2021 Full text Cite

At the Threshold of Liberty Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.

Book · January 29, 2021 In telling these stories, Nunley places Black women at the vanguard of the history of Washington, D.C., and the momentous transformations of nineteenth-century America. ... Cite

The new civil war revisionism, twenty years later a roundtable in honor of Edward L. Ayers

Journal Article Civil War History · January 1, 2019 Full text Cite