Expertise

Kelly Kennington is a historian of slavery in the antebellum American South, with a particular focus on how enslaved persons interact with formal and informal systems of law.

Research Interests:

  • African American history; history of the American South; legal history; U.S. history from the colonial period until 1865.

 


Interests:

  • U.S. History
  • Southern History
  • Race, Rights, and Inequalities
Communities
Women's Studies, History, Human Development
Degrees
PhD, Duke University, 2009
MA, Duke University, 2004
BA, Tulane University, 2002
Keywords
history of law social history american history