Historical cotton ginning receipt
Receipt from Hunt & Smith to Jacob Cable, June 3, 1809, section A, box 70, Small Manuscript Collections, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, NC.

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Academic Research

Recent Research

"The Gin Complex: Slavery, Plantations, and the Cotton Gin in the Short-Staple U.S. South, 1793–1860" (Princeton senior thesis, advisor Matthew Karp) Winner, C. O. Joline Prize
"'Herself and Mr. Reed': Frustration and Freedom at the Beaufort Freedman's Bank, 1864–1873" (Princeton junior-year paper, advisor Alison Isenberg) Winner, Carter Kim Combe Prize (best junior independent work in history)

Published Undergraduate Articles