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Professor Amy Johnson, Assistant Professor of History, has been exploring the concept of "unfreedom" through an examination of the Jamaican Maroon practice of holding people in bondage during the 17th through the 19th centuries.

Amy M. Johnson's article titled "Slavery on the Gold Coast and African Resistance to Slavery in Jamaica during the Early Colonial Period" was accepted for publication in vol. 18 of LIMINA: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies.

Amy M. Johnson, an assistant professor in the Department of History and Geography, presented her research at the Harriet Tubman Summer Institute 2011: Slavery, Memory, and Citizenship conference hosted by York University in Toronto from August 21-27.

Amy M. Johnson, assistant professor of history and Minority Post-Doctoral Fellow, presented at the annual African Studies Association conference held in San Francisco, Calif.