Episode 1 | Historian Martha S. Jones on A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor and historian, Martha S. Jones,

Author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (University of Cambridge, 2018), which Eric Foner describes as transforming our “understanding of the evolution of citizenship in nineteenth-century America.” Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at John Hopkins University.