Mark Auslander’s Selected Publications on Enslavement and Freedom-Making

Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager. Nannie’s Stone:Commemoration and Resistance (Georgetown, Washington DC). Southern Spaces. July 2023

https://southernspaces.org/2023/nannies-stone-commemoration-and-resistance/

2020. Barbara Cole Williams (1809-1892): An Enslaved and Free Resident of Georgetown.

https://markauslander.com/2021/01/03/barbara-cole-williams-1809-1892-an-enslaved-and-free-resident-of-georgetown

2019 Traveling Together: Slavery, Landscape, and Historical Imagination (The Brooks family of Washington DC)

https://markauslander.com/2020/06/22/traveling-together-slavery-landscape-and-historical-imagination/

2019. In Bondage, on the Heights: Enslaved Persons on Mt. St. Albans and The Highlands, c. 1817-1862. (Glover Park History)

2016. “Slavery’s Traces: In Search of Ashley’s Sack.” Southern Spaces (28 November)

https://southernspaces.org/2016/slaverys-traces-search-ashleys-sack/

2012 “Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones” Southern Spaces.  December 2012.

https://southernspaces.org/2012/enslaved-labor-and-building-smithsonian-reading-stones/

2010. “Holding on to Those Who Can’t be Held”: Reenacting a Lynching at Moore’s Ford, Georgia (Southern Spaces)

2010.  “The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University’s Utopian Landscapes” (Southern Spaces)

2009. “Going by the Trees: Death and Regeneration in Georgia’s Haunted Landscapes” Electronic Antiquity, “Ancient Mysteries, Modern Secrets.” (Ma

Note: Organizations listed from identification purposes only.

Presentations

Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager. Webinar. “Black Chevy Chase DC and Mount Zion Cemetery in Georgetown:: Connected in Life and Death.” February 7, 2024. Sponsored by Historic Chevy Chase DC (HCCDC):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2pWN2z0iU

Lisa Fager, Interview: Helping our Ancestors Rest in Peace,  National Newspapers Press Association. March 3, 2022. 

https://www.facebook.com/NNPABlackPress/videos/1570389683321394

Lisa Fager (Badiako). “Citizen Activism” RapSessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR-BwFMyiJg

Mark Auslander,  “Families Divided: The Human Costs of Enslavement in Emory’s History,” at the conference, “In the Wake of Slavery and Dispossession: Emory, Racism, and the Journey Towards Restorative Justice” (September 29-October 1, 2021) at Emory University.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atoDHB5pXao&list=PLDSBylqXf9oGHja1c3mknOqz8JcVYMNfT&index=5

Mark Auslander, “Regenerating Lineage in the Shadow of Racial Violence: The Burdens of Postmemory.” University of Southern Indiana, Liberal Arts. November 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njhq511m1Os

Mark Auslander, “Why we Revisit Painful Events.”  TedX (Yakima, WA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj-gIkqNDdA