We are pleased to announce our second workshop of the 2021-22 academic year: an online workshop of “ ‘Descendants of Indian Women’: Robin v. Hardway,” a paper by Professor Honor Sachs.

Professor Sachs comes to us from the history department at the University of Colorado, where she teaches courses on early America, with a particular focus on the revolutionary and founding eras, race and slavery, legal and constitutional history, and histories of family, genealogy, and memory.  She is the author of the book Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier, published in 2015 by the Yale University Press, which received the Kentucky Book Prize and the Armitage-Jameson Prize from the Coalition for Western Women’s History.  She is currently working on two new projects, one, “Freedom by a Judgment: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family,” which explores the history of an extended mixed-race Virginia slave family that sued for freedom through Indigenous descent over multiple generations, another, “Servant, Soldier, Slaveholder: A Story of Political Revolution, Personal Transformation, and Racial Violence in Early America,” which addresses the issue of convict transportation in the Atlantic World.

This workshop will be held on Wednesday, October 6, from 12-1 pm, on Zoom:

The workshop will take place on Zoom. Please contact the office of Academic Operations, Gould School of Law for Zoom login information clhcserv@law.usc.edu.