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Endowed Chair
A native of Tidewater Virginia, Dr. Antonio T. Bly completed his undergraduate degree in History at Norfolk State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies at William & Mary. Before joining the History Department at Sac State, he served as the Director of Africana Studies at Appalachian State University.
Dr. Bly teaches a wide variety of classes:
- HIST 150A - Colonial America
- HIST 150B - Early American Book History
- HIST 151A - The Age of the American Revolution
- HIST 151B - Democracy in Early America
- HIST 176A - African Cultural Heritage in the Americas
- HIST 177 – The African American Experience
- HIST 192Z – Seminar in Recent Interpretations of a Specific Topic
- HIST 281A - Reading Seminar in Colonial or Early US History
Professor Antonio T. Bly
In addition to being an engaging teacher, Dr. Bly is an active scholar and researcher. He specializes in colonial American history, early African American history, and eighteenth-century American book history. His current research project examines the lives of enslaved, bound, and unfree peoples in colonial America, tentatively entitled Politics of the Feet.
Books
- Escaping Matrimony: A Documentary History of Runaway Spouses in Eighteenth-Century America. Lexington Books. Lexington Books, 2023.
- Escaping Slavery: A Documentary History of Native American Runaways in British North America. Lexington Books, 2022.
- Escaping Servitude: A Documentary History Runaway Servants in Colonial Virginia.Co-authored with Tamia Haygood. Lexington Books, 2015.
- Escaping Bondage: A Documentary History of Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century New England, 1700-1789. Lexington Books, 2012.
Articles
- "'Indubitable signs': Reading Silence as Text in New England Runaway Slave Advertisements" Slavery & Abolition 42.2 (2021): 240-268.
- Co-authored with Ryan Ingerick. “ʽAble and willing to bear Arms’: Indentured Servants and the Coming of the American Revolution in Virginia.” Configurações 26 (2020): 43-62.
- “ʽOn Death’s Domain Intent I Fix My Eyes’: Text, Context, and Subtext in the Elegies of Phillis Wheatley” Early American Literature 53.2 (2018): 317-341.
- “Pretty, Sassy, Cool: Slave Resistance, Agency, and Culture in Colonial New England” New England Quarterly 89.3 (September 2016): 457-492.