Kimberly Welch is a prizewinning scholar of slavery, race, and the law in the early U.S. South and Atlantic World and a professor of history at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (UNC Press), and a laureate of the prestigious Dan David Prize.
An American Aristocracy: The Rise and Fall of Two Wealthy Black Families in the Nineteenth Century