Faculty and Staff
David W. Dangerfield, Ph.D.
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Department: | History USC Salkehatchie |
| Email: | dangerfd@mailbox.sc.edu |
| Phone: | 843-782-8641 or 803-812-7338 |
Ph.D. (History) - University of South Carolina (2014)
M.A. (History) - The College of Charleston / The Citadel (2009)
B.A. (History) - Erskine College (2005)
Professor Dangerfield is a native of the South Carolina lowcountry and has been a
member of the USC-Salkehatchie faculty since 2015. His research interests include
free persons of color and non-elite whites in the antebellum South and South Carolina
history.
Selected Writings
“Portraying plantations as luxury real estate downplays the legacy of slavery,” The Washington Post, October 21, 2021. Co-Authored with Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders (University of Colorado)
and Caroline Grego (Queens University of Charlotte)
“Black Farmers Have Always Faced Injustice. Will the American Rescue Plan Help?,” The Washington Post, April 1, 2021.
“Testing the Limits: Free Persons of Color and Antebellum South Carolina Law,” Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association (Accepted and Forthcoming).
“Just Beyond the Reach of Servitude: Free Person of Color Farmers in Antebellum South
Carolina’s Upcountry,” American Nineteenth Century History, Volume 22 Number 1 (Spring 2021): 27-47.
“Pandemic school funding debate in South Carolina rekindles Jim Crow-era controversy,” The Conversation, September 24, 2020.
“Notions of Humanity: Two of South Carolina’s Early Abolitionists,” Carologue, Volume 24 Number 1 (Summer 2018): 19-22.
“Turning the Earth: Free Black Yeomanry in the Antebellum South Carolina Lowcountry,” Agricultural History, Volume 89 Issue 2 (Spring 2015): 200-224.