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Name | Professor Anne Bailey |
| Position | International Advisory Board Member |
Bailey’s research interests include African-American history; African and African Diaspora studies; history and memory; oral history; and civil rights. She writes and speaks about a variety of topics related to these research areas including race, slavery, immigration, refugees, diasporas, faith and history and human rights.
In her work, Bailey combines the elements of travel, adventure, history and an understanding of contemporary issues with an accessible style. Her works range from adult non-fiction to children’s historical fiction, and includes African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame (Beacon Press, 2005) and You Can Make A Difference: The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.(Bantam/Doubleday/Dell). Her book, The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History, was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2017 and has received very wide coverage.
She is committed to a concept of “living history,” in which events of the past are connected to current and contemporary issues. She is also concerned with the reconciliation of communities after age-old conflicts like slavery, war, apartheid and genocide. This is best evidenced in her non-fiction book, The Weeping Time. This book is the first non-fiction title to look at the operation of a major slave auction in the United States and to trace the lives of slaves before and after their sale. The Weeping Time is unique in making use of interviews of the living descendants of slave families sold on the auction block. Finally, one of her mostly widely read publications is a contribution to The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning 1619 Project. (Feb. 2020) The article was entitled, “They Sold Human Beings Here."
