Beyond Slavery
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Slavery in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Scripture and Religious Law
Christianity, Religion of the Slaveholders and the Enslaved
Sexual Assault and Exploitation Under U.S. Slavery and Jim Crow
How Slavery Has Shaped Our Understandings of Marriage and Friendship
Slavery, Violence, and the State
Melinda Weekes
Melinda is the Director of Program Development for the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard Association, Inc., where she directs and develops programming for an ethnically and economically diverse living community of over 2000 in the heart of Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood. An attorney and gospel music scholar-aficionado, Melinda is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and serves as the Minister of Worship and Arts at Bethel A.M.E. Church in Boston, Massachusetts.