Nikki M. Taylor

Nikki M. Taylor is an assistant professor of history at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Her research interests include black educational history, urban history, and women’s history.

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Frontiers of Freedom

Cincinnati’s Black Community 1802–1868

Nineteenth-century Cincinnati was northern in its geography, southern in its economy and politics, and western in its commercial aspirations. While those identities presented a crossroad of opportunity for native whites and immigrants, African Americans endured economic repression and a denial of civil rights, compounded by extreme and frequent mob violence.…