Deep research across continents for more than a decade, and a bit of self reflection, led to the latest book by Dr. Frederick Knight, Professor and Chair of the History Department at Howard University. Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) examines the role of the aged in the formation of early African American communities through to Reconstruction, and we discussed it on a recent episode of the New Books Network. Here, we talk about what else Dr. Knight would have liked to include in the book.
You can find Dr. Knight at the Howard University History Department or on LinkedIn. He is also the author of Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850 (NYU Press, 2010).
