Raymond Krohn, assistant professor in the Department of History, recently presented a paper at the 2022 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference in Salt Lake City. The presentation, “The Heroic Slave and Scholarly Abolitionists: History as Propaganda during the American Civil War Era,” considered how black and white antislavery authors deployed historical inquiry subversively in the 1850’s and 1860’s. To overturn prevailing cultural fictions that had pictured enslaved people as uniquely passive, patient, and pious, such writers studiously examined history, focusing on the ways in which real people of color had forcefully resisted enslavement in and outside the United States.