Participant Info
- First Name
- Viola Franziska
- Last Name
- Müller
- Country
- Netherlands
- State
- Viola.muller@wur.nl
- Affiliation
- Wageningen University
- Website URL
- https://www.wur.nl/en/persons/viola-muller.htm
- Keywords
- slavery, labor, United States, Atlantic World, Americas, free people of color, runaway slaves, urban history, capitalism, resistance, race, coercion, long nineteenth century
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022);
(with Anamarija Batista & Corinna Peres) Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations through History and Art (London: UCL Press, 2024);
(with Christian De Vito) “Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labour, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s-1880s,” special issue Journal of Global Slavery 7:1-2 (2022);
”Early Undocumented Workers: Runaway Slaves and African Americas in the Urban South, c. 1830-1860,” Labor History 61:2 (2020): 96-106.
- Media Coverage
- https://theconversation.com/how-some-enslaved-black-people-stayed-in-southern-slaveholding-states-and-found-freedom-196431
- Social Media
- @vfmueller.bsky.social
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, Caribbean, Latin America, North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Environment, Labor, Migration & Immigration, Race, Slavery, Urban History
