Ted Maris-Wolf
interim VP of Research at Colonial Williamsburg
PhD received: 2011
Dissertation Title: Liberty, Bondage, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Free Black Expulsion Law and Self-Enslavement in Virginia, 1806–1864
MA received: 2002
Thesis Title: Between Slavery and Freedom: African Americans in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1863
Awards, Fellowships and Publications
- received the Thatcher Prize for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Study from the College of William & Mary (2011)
- 2014 George & Ann Richards Prize for his article "'Of Blood and Treasure': Recaptive Africans & the Politics of Slave Trade Suppression" published in the Journal of the Civil War Era.
- Family Bonds: Free Blacks & Re-enslavement in Antebellum Virginia
