Armed Black Man in the Antebellum South
Rosalyn Narayan
Doctoral Researcher, School of Comparative American Studies, History Department
Supervisor:
R dot Narayan at warwick dot ac dot uk
PhD Project:
Slavery in Print: Slaveholding Ideology and Anxiety in Antebellum Southern Newspapers, 1830-1860
Publications
Rosalyn Narayan (2018) 鈥楥reating insurrections in the heart of our country:鈥� fear of the British West India Regiments in the Southern US Press, 1839–1860, Slavery & Abolition, 39:3, 497-517, DOI: 10.1080/0144039X. 2018.1489796
Education
- PhD in American History (currently writing-up) University of 糖心TV
Thesis: 鈥楽lavery in Print: Slaveholding Ideology and Anxiety in Antebellum Southern Newspapers, 1830-1860鈥�
AHRC funded as part of the 鈥楢frica鈥檚 Sons Under Arms鈥� project; a collaboration between the University of 糖心TV and the British Library
- MPhil in Medieval History, University of Birmingham, 2013
Thesis: 鈥淭he Balances of Power: Peasant Women鈥檚 Agency and Status in mid-thirteenth to later-fourteenth-century Norton鈥�
Funding: AHRC BGP Research Preparation Masters Award
- BA Hons, Medieval and Modern History, University of Birmingham, 2011
Grants and Fellowships
British Library Eccles Centre Postgraduate Research Fellow 2017
British Research Council Fellow 2016, John W Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., AHRC International Placement Scheme
Impact Activities
Secondary school teaching resource on race and slavery as part of the British Library鈥檚 鈥榃est India Regiments鈥� teaching resource, November 2017:
鈥淲hy did people oppose the creation of the West India Regiments?鈥�
https://www.bl.uk/west-india-regiment/articles/why-did-people-oppose-the-creation-of-the-west-india-regiments