Jeff Forret
@jforret.bsky.social
Dad, historian, prof, first-gen academic. Author of The Price They Paid, Williams' Gang, Slave against Slave, Race Relations at the Margins.
Sergio Lussana's My Brother Slaves is the first that comes to my mind.
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Sergio Lussana's My Brother Slaves is the first that comes to my mind.
It's not "traditional country" unless they appeared on Hee Haw. Sorry.
June 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It's not "traditional country" unless they appeared on Hee Haw. Sorry.
Time to update that c.v.
May 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Time to update that c.v.
Bookmarked. Thank you.
May 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bookmarked. Thank you.
My Pell Grant said otherwise.
May 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
My Pell Grant said otherwise.
My sincere condolences. Your dad meant the world to me. I could not have asked for a kinder, more generous, or more brilliant mentor.
January 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
My sincere condolences. Your dad meant the world to me. I could not have asked for a kinder, more generous, or more brilliant mentor.
A false appositive!
November 21, 2024 at 9:35 PM
A false appositive!
This one covers four U.S. domestic slave-trading vessels that wrecked or were blown off course to holdings in the British colonial Atlantic b/t 1831 and 1840. The British offered freedom to the enslaved, and U.S. slave owners and insurance companies pressed for compensation from the Crown.
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
This one covers four U.S. domestic slave-trading vessels that wrecked or were blown off course to holdings in the British colonial Atlantic b/t 1831 and 1840. The British offered freedom to the enslaved, and U.S. slave owners and insurance companies pressed for compensation from the Crown.
Is there a "historians who lift" starter pack?
November 15, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Is there a "historians who lift" starter pack?
Oh, wait. Nevermind. Thank you!
November 10, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Oh, wait. Nevermind. Thank you!
More of an end-of-the-semester phenomenon these days.
August 26, 2024 at 10:15 PM
More of an end-of-the-semester phenomenon these days.