![]() ![]() She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other awards, including the Julia Cherry Spruill Publication Prize for Best Book in Southern Women's History given by the Southern Association for Women Historians. Marie Jenkins Schwartz is an independent author and historian who writes about American women, families, and slavery. She is working on a fourth tentatively called Scandal: First Ladies, Unfaithful Presidents, and the Rise of Modern-Day Politics. ![]() Schwartz is the author of three books - Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves (2017) Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South (2006) and Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South (2000). And as Marie Jenkins Schwartz uncovers in Ties That Bound, these women, as the day-to-day managers of their households, dealt with the realities of a slaveholding culture directly and continually, even in the most intimate of spaces. At the University of Rhode Island, she served terms as executive director of its Center for the Humanities and as chair of the history department. ![]() ![]() Marie Jenkins Schwartz is professor emeritus of history at the University of Rhode Island and an independent scholar and writer. ![]()
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