Join CEO Gloria L. Blackwell in conversation with AAUW American Fellowship alumna Tamika Nunley, Ph.D., as they discuss her recent book, “The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia,” 1662-1865.

This book examines clemency in legal cases that involve enslaved women accused of capital crime in early Virginia. In these legal encounters, we not only see a system that worked to define and affirm a commitment to legal paternalism that upheld the rule of law, but decades of responses made by the countless enslaved women accused of capital offenses.

“The Demands of Justice” examines how these responses constituted the makings of an intellectual history of enslaved women’s articulations of justice.