Abena Boakyewa-Ansah
Abena Boakyewa-Ansah is a fifth year graduate student studying 19th century America. She is interested in African American religion and identity, with specific interest in the African American religious experiences before and during the American Civil War. She is studying with Professor Richard Blackett.
Representative publications
"Crafted 'By Their Own Hands': African American Religious Experience in Union Occupied North Carolina, 1862-1865," North Carolina Historical Review, Vol.94, July 2017. p. 299-332.