Visiting Professor Honor Sachs latest journal article is entitled “Freedom By A Judgment: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family.”
It follows a trail of law suits initiated by an extended family of slaves claiming freedom through Indian ancestry in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. (Law and History Review Vol.30 (1) 173-203)
Before coming to the College of Charleston, Professor Sachs was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and taught courses on Colonial America, Legal and Constitutional History, and Early U.S. Women’s History at Southern Connecticut State and The New School.